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Our first juvenile Curlew Sandpiper of the year arrived today.
Wetland Bird Survey Totals
14 Cormorant
19 Little Egret (nearly all on the estuary)
8 Grey Heron
13 Crane includes a family with two juveniles
1 Spoonbill (roosting and feeding on Dumbles foreshore over high tide)
89 Mute Swan
327 Greylag
343 Canada Geese
120 Barnacle Geese
3 Mandarin
28 Shelduck
14 Wigeon (Top New Piece and five in from the estuary)
78 Gadwall
605 Teal
1029 Mallard
90 Shoveler
1 Garganey
1 Ross's Goose
1 Bar-headed Goose
1 Snow x Bar-headed Goose hybrid
86 Tufted Duck
71 Moorhen
98 Coot
170 Lapwing
230 Ringed Plover (estuary mudflats)
1 Whimbrel
204 Curlew (estuary)
112 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Turnstone (juvenile with Dunlin)
15 Ruff (on the scrapes)
4 Sanderling (with the Dunlin/Ringed Plover)
2 Curlew Sandpiper (moulting adult and the first juvenile of the year)
332 Dunlin (estuary mudflats)
6 Green Sandpiper
1 Wood Sandpiper (South Lake)
9 Snipe
6 Little Grebe
633 Black-headed Gull
MJM