Todays Sightings
Great white egret showing well today from Lyle hide.
The 3:30pm feed was great today the water levels have come up slightly so the swans are feeding out of the wheelbarrow! All of the hides are still open but there is a puddle in the path on the way to Reedbed hide.
A pair of whooper swans came to the 3:30pm feed with 7 cygnets! What an amazing family the normal clutch size for whooper swans is 3-5 so 7 is fantastic and to think that family has travelled all the way from Iceland.
Todays Sightings - 68 species!
Whooper swan
Bewick's swan - Friends hide 6 at lunchtime
Mute swan
Black swan - Lyle hide
Canada goose
Greylag goose
Egyptian goose
Shelduck
Mallard
Teal
Tufted duck
Pochard
Shoveler
Wigeon
Pintail
Gadwall
Black-headed gull
Common gull
Lesser black backed gull
Cormorant
Great white egret - Lyle hide
Little egret
Grey heron
Curlew
Black-tailed godwits
Golden plover 3000+
Lapwing
Dunlin
Ruff
Redshank
Snipe
Peregrine
Red kite
Buzzard -3
Marsh harrier
Barn owl
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Rook
Crow
Jackdaw
Magpie
Moorhen
Coot
Water rail – calling at the main observatory
Woodpigeon
Collared dove
Stock dove
House sparrow
Tree sparrow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Mistle thrush
Redwing
Fieldfare
Cetti’s warbler
Blue tit
Great tit
Wren
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Meadow pipit
Skylark
Pied wagtail
Reed bunting
