Lots of visible migration and Harbour Porpoise!
Visible migration
Along the foreshore and from the 'Severn view' at Middle Point there was lots of action over the high tide period.
Waders seen in flight due to Peregrine attack included a Common Sandpiper, c15 Grey Plover, c20 Sanderling plus c12 Ringed Plover and a few Dunlin. Migrating birds were as follows...7 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Red Knot, 3 Dunlin, 2 Common Tern downriver and 24 North with flocks of c51 (12: 45pm), 29 and c37 Common/Arctic Terns, flocks of 6 and 7 Black Tern, 2 Little Tern (1:12pm) as well as c50 Black-headed Gull, 300 Swallow, 40 Sand Martin, 3, 2 and 1 Yellow Wagtail. Nearly all birds were heading NE.
Severn Estuary
Harbour Porpoise fishing on the ebb tide.
Image-M.J.McGill
Rushy Pen
Four Bar-tailed Godwits were displaced by the Peregrine attack and settled on the lower pond. Image is of the brightest male.
Other highlights are the nesting Avocets, the female Smew, a Redshank and a Red Kite over N across the Tack Piece.
South Lake
Two adult Mediterranean Gulls flew through calling at 08:35am, ten very smart Ruff including some stunning males in breeding plumage, 160 Black-tailed Godwit, 22 Avocet, a Common Sandpiper.
Zeiss Hide
Pairs of Teal, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallards.
