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Today's sightings
Holden Tower Slow start this morning but numbers of birds built up to thousands by midday. Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 4000 Dunlin 600 DB Brent 1 Barnacle 160 Curlew 450 over high tide Tack Piece Little Stint 1 Ruff 6 Black-tailed Godwit 90 Bewick's Swan 1
26 January 2014
Today's sightings
Above image taken today in the Tack Piece by James Lees WWT The Tack Piece Greenland White-fronted Goose 1 European White-fronted Goose 266 American Wigeon Hybrid 1 male Wigeon 800 Teal 600 Pintail 140 Bewick's Swan 80 Ruff 5 Black-tailed Godwit 60 Golde
25 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Brent Goose 1 Greenland White-fronted Goose 1 (Flew one field north early am) White-fronted Goose 247 (Flew one field north early am) Pintail 80 Bewick's Swan 65 Lapwing 1800 Golden Plover 2200 Little Stint 2 Dunlin 80 The Holden Tower Pere
24 January 2014
Today's sightings-Greenland
The Holden Tower Little Stint 2 Dunlin 700 Curlew 479 Lapwing 2000 Golden Plover 1200 The Tack Piece GREENLAND WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 1 Adult female White-fronted Goose 247 Brent Goose 1 Little Stint 2 Golden Plover 1300 Lapwing 2800 Dunlin 250 Ruff 3 Redsh
23 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 4 Dunlin 800 Lapwing 4300 Golden Plover 1800 Curlew 320 Brent Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 146 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 2 The South Lake Oystercatcher 2 First returning breeders Kingfisher 1 Hybrid Ruddy Shelduck 1 The Tack Piece B
22 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Little Stint 2 feeding around the scrape. Merlin- female resting on the foreshore driftwood. Peregrine female on the fence at south end. E White-fronted Geese- 232. Greenland White-fronted Goose 1- dark bird with long bill. Avocet 4 roosting
21 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower- The Dumbles and Tack Piece Little Stint 3 (two seen together on Tack Piece and scrape) Dunlin 2000 Lapwing 5000+ Golden Plover 2000+ Wigeon 800 Teal 350 Pintail 120 Black-tailed Godwit 142- Tack Piece only Crane- 2 GCP birds mating Dark-bell
19 January 2014
Today's sightings-Waders
Some of the 12,000 waders on the reserve today by James Lees WWT The Tack Piece Golden Plover 3000 Lapwing 5000 (7000 on site) Black-tailed Godwit 120 Dunlin 309 (2000 on site) Ruff 8 Snipe 1 Wigeon 1800 Teal 600 Pintail 180 Shoveler 50 Bewick's Swan 87
18 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 1 Dunlin 600 Curlew 280 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 4800 Brent Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 160 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 4 The Zeiss Hide Teal 700 Grey Heron 1 The Tack Piece Common Crane 3 (GCP) Bewick's Swan 85 Black-tailed Godwit
17 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 1 Dunlin 700 Curlew 401 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 4800 Brent Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 160 Peregrine 2 Buzzard 3 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 136 Pochard 240 Pintail 185 The Tack Piece Common Crane 1 (GCP) Black-tailed Godwit 80 Red
16 January 2014
Today's sightings
Tack Piece Peregrine 2 Little Stint 1 (3 on site) Dunlin 300 Golden Plover 3000 Lapwing 2800 Black-tailed Godwit 80 Ruff 1 Redshank 36 Shoveler 80 Wigeon 1300 The Rushy Med Gull 1 adult Kingfisher 1 Bewick's Swan 105 The kingfisher Hide Kingfisher 1 The S
15 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Male Goosander floated down on the ebb tide among a raft of Wigeon and Pintail. It took flight and headed N upriver. Little Stint- 1 feeding on pools among Dunlin and Lapwing, it visited the scrape. Dark-bellied Brent Goose-1 on the Dumbles B
14 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Merlin-female resting on fences at S end of the Dumbles Peregrine-female on lookout from fence Little Stint-1 seen feeding in pools and around scrape edge on Dumbles E. White-fronted Geese-193 Dark-bellied Brent Goose- 1 among the Barnacle Ge
13 January 2014
Today's sightings
An overnight frost left many shallow water areas frozen but this thawed rapidly with the onset of a front from the SW. The colder conditions and resultant drier few days has allowed water levels to subside slightly. The vast wader flocks have dispersed to
12 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Little Stint 2 Adult and juvenile Dunlin 200 Ruff 5 Redshank 42 Black-tailed Godwit 80 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 2800 Shoveler 40 Wigeon 1600 The Zeiss Hide Water Rail 1 Avocet 4 Black-tailed Godwit 140 Brent Goose 1 Shoveler 164 Teal 16
11 January 2014