The reserve is alive with the sound of Pinkies!!
A lovely clear day and the reserve is starting to fill with pink-footed geese. The maximum count for the day was 3200 but we wouldn't be surprised if 10,000 birds passed through the reserve today. Its been like an airports with birds arriving resting them leaving again heading towards Norfolk, we are a great staging post from their migration from their breeding grounds in Iceland and Greenland. stockphoto pink-footed geese in flight
There is lots of mud exposed on the mere, woodend marsh and ron barker which is great for waders today someone has reported a curlew sandpiper, also onsite common sandpipers, green sandpipers, dunlin, snipe, black-tailed godwits, and lots of lapwing.
