A fairly strong and cool N wind was blowing through causing some birds to seek shelter behind the hedges, banks and reeds. It is nice to have a bright sunny morning, good light. The drier week has allowed water puddling on the fields to drain down into the scrapes causing levels to rise here.
Holden Tower
Dumbles
Dark-bellied Brent- 2 adults among the 196 Barnacle Geese
Peregrine 1
Lapwing 900
Golden Plover 350
Dunlin 120
Wigeon 240 on scrape
Shoveler 52
Little Stint 1 feeding in puddles
Buzzard 2
Tack Piece (can be viewed from any of the hides here)
This is the large flooded field N of hide access path
Ruff 15
Redshank 12
Curlew 60
Dunlin 30
Wigeon 340
Cranes 3 (GCP)
Ox Piece (NEXT FIELD N of Tack Piece)
Pink-footed Goose adult
White-fronted Geese 4+
Crane 2 (GCP)
Willow Hide
Sparrowhawk raided the feeding station
Zeiss Hide
Teal 854
Black-tailed Godwit 200+
Shoveler 40
South Lake
Great Crested Grebe 1
Shoveler 25
Black-tailed Godwit 18
Lapwing 130
Female Eurasian Teal on TackPiece