Good numbers of winter waterfowl
Duck numbers building nicely with Jack Snipe and a good count of 22 Common Snipe on site this morning.
22 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake
1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh
2 Goldeneye - reservoir lagoon
1 Water Pipit - grazing marsh
1 Bittern - main lake W shore
5 Pintail - main lake, reservoir lagoon
2 Stonechat - wader scrape, grazing marsh
1 Peregrine - perched on the hospital
83 Wigeon - grazing marsh, wader scrape, main lake
90 Teal - grazing marsh, main lake, reservoir lagoon, wader scrape
49 Pochard - grazing marsh, main lake, reservoir lagoon
57 Gadwall - site count
62 Shoveler - site count
176 Tufted Duck - site count
26 Common Gull - main lake, reservoir lagoon
358 Coot - site count
December bird highlights: Jack Snipe, Bittern, Goldeneye, Pintail, Water Rail, Caspian Gull, Stonechat, Skylark, Water Pipit, Lesser Redpoll, Chiffchaff.
Fungi: (November) Hairy Oysterling (photo below), Hawthorn Twiglet, Pink Domecap, Yellow Stainer, Dewdrop Bonnet, Fatal Dapperling, Bay Polypore, Common Puffball, Tuberous Polypore, Slender Club, Weeping Bolete, Crested Coral, Blushing Wood Mushroom, Fragrant Funnel, Alder Woodwart, Blistered Cup, Common Bird's Nest, Stubble Rosegill, Yellowing Knight.
