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Today's sightings-large wintering flocks

Holden Tower (wader flocks also visiting the Tack Piece and Top New Piece)

Peregrine male hunting waders, female sitting in the tallest trees.
Golden Plover 1100
Lapwing 2000
Barnacle Goose 190
Oystercatcher 2
Little Stint 3 at least,  feeding around the scrape.
Sparrowhawk
Water Rail 1 below tower.
E. White-fronted Geese are feeding in Ox Piece (field immediately N of Tack Piece)

Tack Piece

Buzzard 2
Black-tailed Godwit 58
Curlew 30
Dunlin 450
Lapwing and Golden Plover see above
Wigeon 800
Teal 300
Bewick's Swan 15
Goshawk and Sparrowhawk over today.
Shoveler 24

Wigeon flock, MJMcGill

Willow Hide

Water Rail 1

Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece

Wigeon 480
Eurasian/American Wigeon apparent hybrid male 1
Teal 400
Lapwing (see above)
Sparrowhawk male.

Sparrowhawk, MJMcGill

South Lake

Cormorant 8 (includes a well marked white headed bird)
Dunlin 10
Oystercatcher 2

Rushy

Bewick's Swan 150+
Pintail 200
Shelduck 130
Pochard 130

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