Cuckoo, Cranes and Avocets!
Rushy
Avocet 12 with three young feeding on the lower pool.
Several tufted ducks and a couple of gadwall.
Lapwing 2 on the causeway.
Little gull 1 in front of InFocus
No sign of the med gulls by 10:30.
Tack Piece
Cattle egret 1 with the cows.
Lapwing pair with three young showing well.
Black tailed godwit 1
Avocet 10
Grey heron 1
Reed warbler showing and singing in the rushes below the hide.
Holden Tower
Tufted duck 18
Shelduck 22
Cetti's warbler singing
Teal 1
Gadwall 4
Raven 2
Canada geese 8
Knott Pool
Mute swan pair with six cygnets
Zeiss Hide
Black tailed godwit 1
Avocet 4
Shelduck 64
Cetti's warbler 1
Reed bunting males singing near the Canoe Safari
Little egret 1
Common crane 3
Swift 70 lowered by light rain
Kingfisher Hide
Kingfisher pair feeding young
Cuckoo male calling
Tufted duck pair
South Lake
Avocet 26 plus seven chicks
Common Crane pair still incubating in front of the Hogarth Hide
Oystercatcher 3
Black tailed godwit 69
Ruff 1 male
Gadwall 7
Tufted duck 9
Kingfisher fly through
