Spoonbill
South Lake Discovery Hide
The Hide is now fully open. Thank you for your patience during the re-fitting period. The hide now boasts a new fixed telescope and some great little binoculars, we hope that the more comfortable seating arrangements and more inviting decoration will get more people interested in the great wildlife that's always on show from this hide.
By way of celebration the first bird on view this morning was a superb adult Spoonbill only 5 M away in front of the picture windows. Otherwise dominated by youngster, there are at least three pairs of Oystercatchers all with a single young. Young Shelducks are all over, at least three broods totaling 29 young (a further brood of 14 was on the ditch by the approach bridge) and the islands on the Lake are full of fat Black Headed Gull chicks. There was two Black Tailed Godwit and two different Avocets that dropped in briefly. Some 8 Teal are the first signs of returning birds.
Rushy
The three Avocets pairs are still incubating and the Oystercatcher chick showing very well in from of the hide. The Black Tailed Godwit that now seem to prefer the upper pond here as a roost site were up to 39. Another sign of some return movement was a single Grey Wagtail here.
Zeiss Hide and South Finger.
Post breeding ducks starting to gather, 16 Teal 19 Shoveler and 22 Gadwall were counted. A single Crane was in the Bottom New Piece viewable from Zeiss and Kingfisher Hide. A kingfisher flew past the Kingfisher Hide but still no signs of breeding activity here.
Holden Tower and Walkway.
Four Green Sandpipers were at the Robbie Garnett. A post breeding flock of 29 lapwings on the Dumbles and at least 29 Curlew on the estuary.
