Welney sightings-22/04/2019
Welney sightings-22/04/2019 Great variety of birdlife today, inc our first cuckoos.

Avocet
Lapwing
Black tailed godwit
Little ringed plover
Water rail
Bittern
Coot
Moorhen
Snipe-drumming at Lyle hide
Ruff
Common sandpiper
Greenshank-Lyle hide
Redshank
Dunlin
Great white egret
Little egret
Grey heron
Black tern x 4 on Lady Fen
Common tern
Sandwich tern
Little gull x 2-Lyle hide
Common gull-(imm)
Black headed gull
Lesser black backed gull
Cormorant
Cuckoos on Summer Walk
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Goldfinch
Tree sparrow
Sedge warbler
Cetti's warbler
Reed warbler
Starling
Skylark
Linnet
Chiffchaff
Yellow wagtail
Pied wagtail
Great tit
Blue tit
Robin
Wren
Blackbird
Swallow
Jackdaw
Rook
Magpie
Stock dove
Collared dove
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Greylag geese
Canada geese
Shelduck
Shoveler
Wigeon
Teal
Mallard
Gadwall
Tufted duck
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Merlin
Kestrel
Roe deer
Butterflies
Peacock
Orange tip
Small white
Green veined white