Wet summer day
A very wet and overcast day was brightened by the birds, we still have much to see and study as the breeding season is in full swing.
Tack Piece (Robbie Garnett Hide)
Good to see the first returning Green Sandpiper, we should see increasing numbers as the adults come back to summer with us post breeding season. The scrape was busy, a family of four Avocet chicks, the Lapwing family almost ready to fledge and two Little Egrets.
Green Sandpiper
Lapwing chick
Little Egret
Rushy Pen
Two first-summer Mediterranean Gulls among the loafing Black-headed Gulls, Avocet families, Oystercatcher with two young, the Black-tailed Godwit flock (82 yesterday) plus Shelduck and Gadwall broods.
South Lake
Breeding Avocets (15 chicks with broods of 1, 2, 2,3, 3, 4), breeding Oystercatcher- at least one brood, lots of Black-headed Gull chicks, the pair of nesting Cranes- Bart and Ruby at the Hogarth Hide, plus broods of Shelduck x16 and Mallards. A second summer Mediterranean Gull dropped in again today. Our local House Martins fed over the lake. At least 8 Gadwall and three Shoveler.
Holden Tower/Middle Point
268 Shelduck feeding on the mudflats plus 6 Ringed Plover and a Dunlin. 40-50 Swifts also feeding over the estuary and seawall.
Zeiss Hide
A large gathering of 98 Gadwall plus a male Teal on the Bottom New Piece. Little Egret and 20 Shelduck with a few Lapwing.
