Latest sightings
Tuesdays sightings
The Rushy Avocet 17- with young Oystercatcher 2 with young The Holden Tower Avocet 10 Oystercatcher 2 Lapwing 6 The Tack Piece Avocet 5 Lapwing pair with young The Zeiss Hide Avocet 14 Black-tailed Godwit 1 The South Lake Avocet 5 Black-tailed Godwit 10 G
10 June 2015
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Avocet 8/9 pairs with at least one brood. Oystercatcher pair + brood of 2 chicks (see below) Shelduck + 2 broods Tufted Duck/Mallards Robbie Garnett Hide Avocet 4 Lapwing 4 Crane 1 GCP Holden Tower Avocet 3 pairs nesting and at least one brood
9 June 2015
Today's sightings-return of the Green Sandpiper and wader chicks
Holden Tower Avocet 4 pairs nesting-brood of 2 and brood of 3 being walked to TNP Lapwing 43- Dumbles (post breeding flock gathering) Bullfinch pair Top New Piece (TNP) from Zeiss Hide Avocet 10 Oystercatcher 2 Gadwall 6 Shoveler 6 Swift/Swallow and Hous
8 June 2015
Explosion of Avocet Chicks
Road Fields Crane 2 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 12 Gadwall 6 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Lapwing 12 Oystercatcher 2 Heron 1 Cuckoo 1 Reed Warbler 4 Reed Bunting 2 The Holden Tower Avocet broods of 3,2,2,1 plus 3 still incubating Sparrowhawk 1 male successfully rebuf
7 June 2015
Saturday's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Avocet 8 Shelduck 45 Gadwall 20 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Lapwing 20 Little Egret 1 The Holden Tower Avocet 22 Lapwing pair with young Oystercatcher 2 Skylark 10 The Tack Piece Crane 3 Avocet 5 The Rushy Avocet 17 Oystercatcher with young Th
6 June 2015
Sandwich Terns!
The Zeiss Hide SANDWICH TERN 2 sat on one of the small islands with a few gulls. Gadwall 14 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Lapwing 27 The Holden Tower Little-ringed Plover 1 Avocet 17 Lapwing pair with young Crane 2 The Tack Piece Crane 1 The Rushy Avocet 19 Oyste
5 June 2015
Sunny sightings
The Zeiss Hide Marsh Harrier 1 Female Avocet 10 Black-tailed Godwit 1 The Holden Tower Avocet 17 Peregrine 1 The Rushy Avocet 17 Black-tailed Godwit 20 The Kingfisher Hide Cuckoo 1 The South Lake Kingfisher 1
3 June 2015
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Avocet 8 pairs Lapwing 2 Oystercatcher 2 Black-tailed Godwit 30 Tack Piece Avocet 8 Holden Tower Little ringed Plover 1 Dunlin 1 Avocet 8 pairs (2 broods) Estuary mudflats at high tide Sanderling 3 Dunlin 15 Ringed Plover 30 Curlew 1 South Lake
2 June 2015
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Avocet 20 Lapwing 2 Oystercatcher 2 Shelduck 30 Tufted Duck 10 Tack Piece Avocet 8 Lapwing 2 Barnacle Goose 20 Holden Tower Avocet 10 + 5 chicks (brood of 2 and 3) Dunlin 1 in the scrape Mudflats at high tide-view distantly from the H. Tower Du
1 June 2015
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Avocet-10 pairs nesting/nestbuilding Garganey- 2 drakes for a time late morning. Lapwing 2 Oystercatcher 2 Redshank 1 Shelduck 30+ 4 ducklings Wigeon 2 males Tack Piece Cranes 4 GCP Barnacle Goose 31 Avocet 4 Holden Tower Estuary Mudflats over h
31 May 2015
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Land Rover Safari`s (yesterday) Safaris will be running today, book when you arrive, first come first served (trips 11.00 and 14.00) Common Tern 2 Hobby 2 Marsh Harrier 1 Little Egret 4 Crane 2 Black Tailed Godwit Redshank Lapwings Roe Deer 1 Four Spotte
30 May 2015
Phalarope returns on schedule
Red Necked Phalarope A female dropped into the Robbie Garnett hide this morning then moved onto the Top New Piece in front of the Zeiss Hide. Quite possibly the same individual as last year having arrived at the same time. Avocet Now 9 pairs incubating at
28 May 2015
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Avocet 8 pairs nesting Lapwing pair nesting Oystercatcher pair Black-tailed Godwit 8 Tufted Duck 41 Shelduck 36 Gadwall 4 Wigeon 2 Tack Piece Crane 3 GCP Barnacle Goose 36 Avocet 6 Greylag 30 Teal 2 Holden Tower Avocet 7 pairs, two broods of x4
26 May 2015
Today's sightings
Shelduck-lings on the Rushy Pen Rushy Pen Avocet 6 pairs nesting Lapwing 2 Oystercatcher 2 Hobby at 0800 hunting Swallow and Martins Wigeon pair Tack Piece Crane 2 GCP Barnacle Goose 31 Marsh Harrier over S at 0915 Avocet 2 Holden Tower Lapwing 12 Avocet
24 May 2015
Unringed Crane
Land Rover Safari`s Common Tern 2 Hobby 3 Red Kite 1 Marsh Harrier 2 Little Egret 5 Garganey 1 Crane 4 Roe Deer 1 Hairy Dragonfly 2 Four Spotted Chasers 4 Lots of Damsel flies Holden Tower Avocet 6 incubating birds and a newly hatched brood of 2 Lapwing 6
23 May 2015