First Sedge Warbler of the year
Image- drake Eurasian Shelduck- MJM
Deep in one of our reedbeds the first singing Sedge Warbler of the year was heard today, worth listening out near any of the reed bed areas as more will be arriving soon.
Avocets also laid their first egg of the breeding season but it was predated by Carrion Crows, this was despite 13 pairs and a pair of Oystercatchers trying their best to drive them away.
South Lake
13 Cattle Egret in the willows along N shore of deep lake from Discovery Hide, also coming and going from fields East of canal. A whopping 759 Black-tailed Godwit on the wader scrape at dawn plus 77 Avocet, 4 Oystercatcher, 3cy Mediterranean Gull, 46 Teal, 44 Shoveler, a few Tufted Ducks, Cormorants and Mallard.
Top New Piece from Zeiss Hide
Three Lapwing, pair of Crane, Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Avocet, Sand Martin feeding over, Reed Buntings.
Bottom New Piece from Kingfisher Hide
Female Kingfisher at the nest bank, 6 Roe Deer, 100 Teal, 3 Lapwing, 3 Redshank, two Marsh Harriers.
Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory
Spotted Redshank, 2 Redshank, 14 Avocet and 5 Teal.
Tack Piece
Three Snipe, Ruff, 8 Redshank, 38 Curlew
Estuary Tower
Female Merlin on the Lower Dumbles posts + 9 Curlew, 8 Lapwing and 5 Redshank. At least 225 Russian White-fronted and the Barnacle Goose,. Peregrine, 4 Lapwing, Curlew, White and Pied Wagtail, 27 Avocet on the Dumbles. Willow Warbler singing, 18 Teal, 2 Wigeon, 8 Shoveler on the scrape, 3 male and one female Pochard on Long Ground Pool. The immature Spoonbill (fifth individual of the year) settled on the Dumbles among the geese.
