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Today's sightings
Holden Tower Little ringed Plover 4 around pool on the Dumbles/Tack Piece mud and floods Tundra Bean Goose 1 E. White-fronted Goose 24 Wigeon 60 Dunlin 70 Crane 4 GCP birds flew from Knott Pool to Martin Smith Hide Tack Piece Wigeon 70 Zeiss Hide Spoonbil
25 March 2013
Today's sightings
Tack Piece Spoonbill 1 feeding in scrape or roosting adjacent. Wigeon 70 Goshawk flew over flushing all of the birds late morning. Black-tailed Godwit 57 (mobile flock) Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 1 E White-fronted Goose 24 Common Scoter pair on the eb
24 March 2013
Today's sightings-Garganey still
The drake Garganey still present today on the Tack Piece The Tack Piece GARGANEY 1 male Teal 18 Shelduck 30 Black-tailed Godwit 57 Redshank 9 Little Egret 3 The Holden Tower Little-ringed Plover 2 Dunlin 110 Golden Plover 30 Tundra Bean Goose 1 White-fro
23 March 2013
Today's sightings-Garganey
The Rushy GARGANEY 1 Drake (First of the spring) Today's sightings Little-ringed Plover 4 Tundra Bean Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 24 The South Lake Ruff 3 ( 2 in summer plumage) Black-tailed Godwit 77 The South Finger Chiffchaff 1
22 March 2013
More spring arrivals....
Holden Tower Little ringed Plover 2- first of the year Golden Plover 17 Lapwing c20 on territory, nest scraping and defending against crows. Buzzard 6 Peregrine 1 on the estuary Tundra Bean Goose 1 E White-fronted Goose 24 Chiffchaff 1 Dunlin 200 Zeiss Hi
21 March 2013
Today's sightings
Migrants Sand Martin 1 Chiffchaff 3 The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 24 Barnacle Goose 1 Golden Plover 100 Dunlin 180 Buzzard 5 Peregrine 1 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 7 Pintail 65 The Martin Smith Hide Snipe 2 Water Rail 1 Little Egre
20 March 2013
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 24 Wigeon 80 Peregrine 1 adult Buzzard 6 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 7 Pintail 60 The Long Ground Pool Great-crested Grebe 2 The Willow Hide Water Rail 1
19 March 2013
Today's sightings
Tack Piece Tundra Bean Goose 1 E. White-fronted Goose 24 Little Egret 1 Crane 4 (GCP) Rushy Bewick's Swan 7 (Rovers and six cygnets) Pintail 100 Zeiss Hide Black-tailed Godwit 50 Dunlin 120 Oystercatcher 2 American x Eurasian Wigeon hybrid male with 35 Wi
18 March 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower/Tack Piece E White-fronted Goose 30 Tundra Bean Goose 1 Barn Owl 1 hunting at midday Pintail 30 Wigeon 45 South Lake Black-tailed Godwit 74 Oystercatcher 2 Zeiss Hide Water Rail 2 Black-tailed Godwit 12 Rushy Bewick's Swan 14 Pintail 60 Pocha
17 March 2013
Today's sightings
Reed Bunting taken from the Willow Hide copyright JSLees White-fronted and Bean Goose on the Tack piece Copyright JSLees The Tack Piece Dunlin 781 Redshank 6 Ruff 1 Lapwing 17 Golden Plover 53 Black-tailed Godwit 76 Snipe 2 Oystercatcher 2 Pintail 30 Th
16 March 2013
Today's sightings
The Rushy Bewick's Swan 35 The Tack Piece Common Crane 4 (GCP) Pintail 45 Common Snipe 1 Common Buzzard 1 The Zeiss Hide Black-tailed Godwit 61 Teal 85 The Holden Tower Peregrine 1 Buzzard 4 Golden Plover 60 Dunlin 200
15 March 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Coal Tit 1 -first of the year. Red-breasted Merganser- female on the estuary-first of the year Shelduck 56 Wigeon 340 Tack Piece E. White-fonted Geese 39 Tundra Bean Goose 1 Bewick's Swan 30 (at least 113 still remain) Pintail 110 Crane 4 GCP
14 March 2013
Today's sightings
Barn Owl at the Holden Tower this morning copyright JSLees Tundra Bean Goose on the Tack Piece Copyright JSLees The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 Showing very well again this afternoon The Holden Tower BARN OWL 1 Hunting in front of the hide at 9am Dunlin 300 Go
13 March 2013
Today's sightings
The Rushy Bewick's Swan 173 Pochard 120 Pintail 240 Tufted Duck 300 The Roadside Fields Common Crane 4 (GCP) The Tack Piece Tundra Bean Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 39 Greylag Goose 6 Pintail 65 The South Lake Black-tailed Godwit 14 Lapwing 280 Tufted Duck
12 March 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Sand Martin- 1 in a snow flurry over Knott Hide. 1st of year. E. White-fronted Gese 75 Tundra Bean Goose 1 juv Peregrine pair Lapwing 300 American x Eurasian Wigeon male hybrid with 300 Wigeon Zeiss Hide Wigeon 12 Pochard 8 Shelduck 8 South L
11 March 2013