Today's sightings
Rushy Hide
13 Avocet + brood of 2. Pair of Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Crane, 6 Gadwall, 17 Tufted Duck, female Wigeon and hybrid male, 31 Shelduck + brood of 12, 3 Greylag, 4 Coot, 2 Moorhen and 2 drake Shoveler.
Middle Point/Severn Estuary
68 Shelduck, 2 Dunlin, 2 Curlew, 3 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone and a Golden Plover among the birds seen on the estuary today.
Holden Tower
Peregrine on the foreshore, 54 Avocet on the scrape doesn't include broods of 4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2.
Tack Piece
Avocet, 2 Lapwing, 2 Gadwall, 42 Greylag and 6 Canada Geese.
South Lake
A Bar-tailed Godwit with 75 Black-tailed Godwits, 9 Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, 6 Lapwing, 6 Shelduck, 19 Tufted Duck, 11 Mallard, 2 Canada Geese + 3 young, 4 Gadwall, 4 Greylag, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Cormorant, Crane, 6 Coot.
'Barwit'
A scarce visitor to the scrapes, this individual is just beginning to moult into breeding plumage, a few red feathers could be seen on the belly.
Kingfisher Hide
Cuckoo singing, Reed and Sedge Warblers, Reed Bunting, nesting Little Grebe, Kingfisher feeding young.
Zeiss Hide
Top New Piece
6 Lapwing, 25 Avocet, Crane, Reed Warblers, 15 Shelduck and 2 drake Shoveler.
Bottom New Piece
4 Redshank, 6 Lapwing, 4 Avocet.
