4 Water Pipit and 2 Jack Snipe on the marsh
Great winter birding with 4 Water Pipit, 2 Jack Snipe, 9 Snipe, Goldeneye, 3 Shelduck and Bittern just some of the highlights on site this morning.
4 Water Pipit - grazing marsh
2 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh
9 Snipe - grazing marsh
1 Pheasant - wildside
1 Goldeneye - main lake
1 Bittern - main lake N shore
6 Pintail - grazing marsh, wader scrape
3 Shelduck - main lake, wader scrape
2 Peregrine - perched on the hospital
December bird highlights: Jack Snipe, Bittern, Goldeneye, Yellow-legged Gull, Pintail, Water Rail, Caspian Gull, Stonechat, Skylark, Water Pipit, Lesser Redpoll, Chiffchaff.
Amphibians: Smooth Newt found on 20th December (not usually seen until the spring).
Unseasonally early flowering plants: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip, Ragwort, Daisy.
