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Please note: Estuary Tower lift is currently out of order and Sloane Tower lift is limited to travel between 1st & 2nd floors. Our otters are currently not viewable from their main exhibit due to maintenance on the boardwalk, but can still be seen from their house. Apologies for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.

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4 Great White Egrets

A single Glossy ibis was around the barns near the canal first thing.

Tack Piece

Highlight so far today have been the 4 Great White Egrets that were in the Tack piece and have now dispersed around the site, 3 Little Egret were with them also Shoveler 25, Pintail 3, Teal 23, Wigeon 5, Avocet 8 and Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap were singing along the walkway. A Tawny Owl was seen from the bridge to the Martin Smith hide in a large Ivy clad Ash tree to the south.

Estuary Tower

There were 9 Avocet in the scrape, 21 Curlew on the estuary and a distant Peregrine on the cross fence.

Rushy

Lots of Little Ringed Plover activity and some good close views and the pair scraping. Alsoa pair of Oystercatcher, 12 avocet a Redshank and 3 Black tailed Godwit, 17 TeaL, 2 female Wigeon and the hybrid male.

Zeiss Hide

Wigeon 1, Teal 38, Black tailed Godwit 28, Avocet 38, Redshank 5 busy displaying and prospecting, lapwing 12 and a full summer plumaged pair of Little Grebe.

Kingfisher Hide

Both Kingfishers active around nesting bank. A pair of Cranes were in the ploughed field and Lapwing and Redshank active in the wet Grassland. Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Cettis were singing along the walkway

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