Wildlife sightings - 30/04/2017
AM high tide
Wader Lake
Common tern 3
Dunlin 1
Black-tailed godwit 15
Shoveler 6
Gadwall
Avocet 20
Lapwing 24
Oystercatcher 4
Tufted duck 6
Lesser black-backed gull 2
Saline Lagoon
Avocet 4
Mute swan 1
Gadwall 1
Great black-backed gull (second winter) 1
Hawthorn Wood
Willow tit 1
Greenfinch 4
Goldfinch 7
Chaffinch 5
Blue tit 4
Other locations
Tree sparrow on the visitor centre feeders 2
A common whitethroat on Wader Lake footpath
A sedge warbler at the filter reedbed
A ferruginous duck in the white-headed duck pen
Chichaff across the reserve 9
Willow warbler across the reserve 5
Feral mandarin drake in Close Encounters