Today's sightings-Little Gull
Tack Piece
Water levels are up again after the deluge, the Tack Piece is still brilliant for watching wetland birds, come and see it while you can.
Little Gull- 1st winter roosting on the floods for a period this morning.
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Curlew 56
Black-tailed Godwit 203
Redshank 45
Ruff 4
Golden Plover (2300 between here and the Dumbles)
Lapwing (2800 between here and the Dumbles)
Teal 374
Wigeon 1498
Greater Scaup 2 females (also on Rushy Pen 0820 and 3pm)
White-fronted Geese 130 (likely to include the Greenlands)
Bewick's Swan 30
Shoveler 49
Pintail 405
Crane 12 GCP birds visiting during the day.
Holden Tower
Many of the above waders moving between the two sites.
Short-eared Owl seen hunting fields to the North this morning and early afternoon.
Shelduck 162 (including Tack Piece)
Kingfisher hide
Siskin 2
Bullfinch 4
Treecreeper 1
ReedBunting 1
Cetti's Warbler 1
WaterRail 1
Ruff 3
Dunlin 120
Lapwing 109
Little Grebe 1
Gadwall 8
South Lake
Bar-tailed Godwit 1 among 193 Black-tailed Godwit at 0830
Avocet 6
Oystercatcher 4
Lapwing 400
Great Crested Grebe 1
Decoy
Mistle Thrush singing at 0815
Zeiss Hide
Teal 311
Wigeon 140
Little Grebe 1
Estuary
Curlew 139 plus the other wintering Bar-tailed Godwit
