Avocets and a Goshawk.
Rushy
Very busy with Avocet, 22 here with lots of incubating birds and a new hatched brood of 3. Shelduck 22 an Oystercatcher one Wigeon and 17 Tufted Duck and of course hundreds of Black Headed Gulls.
Tack Piece
One ringed and an unringed Crane with 47 Barnacle Geese in the centre of the field. Oystercatcher 2 and a Cuckoo calling along the walkway also Lapwing Shoveler, Shelduck and Reed Warbler.
Zeiss Hide
Avocet 53 and 2 on guard Redshanks. Cuckoo calling to the south and the adult Curlews visible distantly to the north on the Dumbles. Gadwall, Shoveler, Tufted and Shelducks.
South Finger
Great views of a Goshawk actually in the walkway but perhaps not surprisingly very little from the hides except a doe Roe Deer. Kingfishers incubating so look out for change overs.
South Lake
Lots of rain overnight and levels well up, avocets enjoying feeding on the new flood with 16, the 43 Black tailed Godwits were mainly roosting. The Little Ringed Plover were on the back of the scrape and a male Pochard and 2 Cormorant were on the lake with hundreds of Black Headed Gulls.
