Thursday's sightings
The Reserve Team were joined by the WWT Conservation Department today for a big practical session on the Decoy renovations. We've managed to complete a big chunk of work, so a HUGE thank you to the gang for helping out. We've still got a way to go to have the pond ready for operations come November so work will be continuing in this area for the next few weeks.
South Lake Hides
Birds on the wader scrape included a Ruff, 36 Redshank, 49 Shoveler, 126 Lapwing, 9 Gadwall, 151 Teal, 10 Snipe, 58 Black-tailed Godwit. Birds on the deep lake included 2 Pochard, 7 Cormorant and 2 Grey Heron.
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Zeiss Hide
A Merlin flew through this morning putting all the birds up allowing a better count once everything returned to the water. Duck included 1260 Teal, 119 Wigeon, 38 Pintail, 2 Gadwall and 11 Shoveler. The Lapwing flock was only 198 birds strong with 12 Ruff feeding at the north end of the scrape. A very vocal Buzzard was to the south and at least 3 Grey Heron were present.
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Robbie Garnett Hide
A nice selection of birds were on offer this morning including the 3 Spotted Redshank, 3 Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Redshank, 128 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, a Green Sandpiper and 27 Lapwing.
A Red Kite flew low over the Visitor Centre and grounds at lunchtime.
