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Sightings from the hides
Rushy Hide
A juvenile Common Sandpiper was with at least 4 Green Sandpiper and the Avocet broods, 3 Oystercatcher also on the causeway. Pied Wagtail pairs feeding young on the mud.
Tack Piece
Little Egret from Martin Smith Hide and Knott Hide, a Greenshank was on the scrape but flew off toward TNP, also Oystercatcher, 2 Green Sandpiper, Lapwing, Avocet and 10 Black-tailed Godwit.
South Lake
The Little-ringed Plover pair should be hatching young any day now. They are incubating in the cage at the south end of the wader scrape. 246 Black-tailed Godwit, 65 Redshank, 3 Ruff (t wo males and a Reeve), 133 Gadwall, 30+ Teal and a few Shoveler, Mallard and Tufted Duck among them, Little Grebe and Cormorant also present.
Zeiss Hide
3 adult Greenshank, 100+ adult and fledged Avocet + 21 young, 3 male Ruff (one with rufous neck and two with black necks, one visiting the Bottom New Piece, 5 Little ringed Plover and 3 Green Sandpiper plus a flock of 40 Lapwing. The reed bed is alive with Reed Warbler activity. Out on the Severn the Spoonbill was roosting on the spartina island with 10 Little Egret. At least 20 Teal and 12 Gadwall on the flood and fleets with two broods of Shelduck.
