Welney Sightings 14/10/2022

14 October 2022

beautiful autumnal day, winter birds arriving and a great spectacle of 74 cranes yesterday on our newly created pool.

Highlights:

Whooper swans
Ruff
Great white egret
Common Sandpiper
Barn Owl
12 cranes (arrived 15.50 lyle hide)

Lapwing
Black tailed godwit
Redshank
Snipe
Golden plover
Dunlin
Grey heron
Little egret
Cormorant
Coot
Moorhen
Teal
Mallard
Shelduck
Gadwall
Goldfinch
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
pied wagtail
Great tit
Blue tit
Robin
Wren
Starling
Wood pigeon
Stock dove
Collard dove
Black headed gull
Magpie
Jackdaw
Carrion crow
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Kestrel