Today's sightings
A cold night yet again with -6 temperatures but the roads and car park are all dry and ice free. Most of the widlfowl and waders are to be found in three main ice free areas. South Lake Thous [...]
A cold night yet again with -6 temperatures but the roads and car park are all dry and ice free. Most of the widlfowl and waders are to be found in three main ice free areas.
South Lake
Thousands of birds here on the ice free parts of the lake or roosting on the ice.
Tufted Duck and Pochard 800
Mandarin Duck 3 (two males and a female)
Great Crested Grebe 1
Cormorant 7 (most sinensis..the Continental Cormorant)
Black-tailed Godwit 1
Lapwing 60
Mallard, Wigeon, Teal, Gadwall, Shelduck, White fronted Goose,
Bewick's Swan all present.
Rushy
Bewick's Swan 170
Pochard 120
Pintail 300
Teal 290
Shelduck 160
Tufted Duck 130
Holden Tower
Egyptian Goose 1
Greylag 12
Barnacle Goose 130
Peregrine Falcon 1
Reed Bunting and Redwing
Stephen Kirk Hide
Water Rail 1 also on the path
Zeiss Hide
Look out for the Bittern
Redwing flock in the wood
White-fronted Geese are in the North fields but should come down to drink later.
