Todays Sightings
Zeiss Hide
Wigeon 1010
Teal 660
Ferruginous Hybrid 1 male
Lapwing 1400
Dunlin 400
Ruff 1
Black Tailed Godwit 1
Snipe 1
Water Rail calling in front of hide
Cettis Warbler 1
Kingfisher Hide
Bird feeding station very active. All the common garden species including Blue and Great Tit. Chaffinch, Gold and Greenfinch also 1 Reed Bunting and a singing Cettis near by. Redwings and Blackbirds feeding on berries and a Mistle Thrush on the Mistletoe.
Martin Smith Hide
Pintail 6 (very close)
Teal4 (very close)
Snipe 1
Robbie Garrnett Hide
White-fronted Goose 148 (new high count for the year)
Wigeon 500
Lots of birds actively feeding very close to the hide, good views of;
Pintail 35
Pochard 30
Bewicks Swan 24
Lapwing 900
Redshank 2
Curlew 8
Common Crane 1 flew over.
Holden Tower
Brent Goose 1 injured bird on the estuary.
Wigeon 1300
Peregrine 1
Lapwing 800
Dunlin 200
Ruff 5
Redshank 2
Reports yesterday of a female Hen Harrier at 15.30 hunting over the saltmarsh.
