Great White Egret.
Rushy
Starting to look busy here, a whopping 360 Tufted Duck, Pochard 68, Pintail 38, Teal 44 and single Redshank and Snipe. Watch out for Little Grebe on the top ppond and a Great White Egret has been coming in for a period around 15.00 over the past few days.
The single wild Bewick Swan is with captive birds on Swan Lake.
Holden and Walkway
Large flocks of Canada, Barnacles and Greylag on the Dumbles , the Whitefront flock (at least 24) are here as well. A single Peregrine and 2 Ravens were also on the Dumbles. There were 470 Teal on the Tack Piece and a great flock of 490 Wigeon. Among them were 3 Redshank. Lots of disturbance was keeping about 400 Lapwing in the air and the Golden Plover tend to build up through the day over 300 were there yesterday.
Two Water Rail were showing very well from Willow Hide with about 40 House Sparrows.
Zeiss Hide
Canada Goose 610
Wigeon 550
Golden Plover 50
Lapwing 400
Snipe 6
Ruff 24
Black tailed Godwit 45
Redshank 4
Dunlin 145
Curlew 5
Buzzard 2 on a kill.
Water Rail calling in reeds.
South Lake
Teal 146
Shoveler 28
Tufted Duck 12
Pochard 24
Great Crested Grebe 1
Cormorant 8
Lapwing 300
Black Tailed Godwit 55
Ruff 1
