Out on the reserve today
A great day to see breeding waders today with lots of adults and chicks in front of the hides. The swallows and house martins are incubating eggs or feeding small chicks and the reedbeds are alive with the sounds of reed warblers, sedge warblers and reed buntings.
Main Observatory
34 black-tailed godwits
3 little ringed plovers
Lapwings
Redshank
2 yellow wagtails
Tufted ducks
Lyle hide
8 black-tailed godwits
4 avocet chicks + adults
Shoveler ducks
10 shelduck ducklings + adults
Drumming snipe
Reedbed hide
3 black-tailed godwits
Drumming snipe
142 black-headed gulls
Friends hide
6 avocet chicks + adults
Lady Fen
Lapwing chicks + adults
Shelduck ducklings + adults
