Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Carew/Cresswell 19th Jan


Goodish numbers of waterfowl including more than 200 shelduck, 350+ wigeon, 335+ teal, six pintail but record numbers of shoveler (92)(see graph of max winter population trends - click to enlarge this) - a species that has been increasing over the last couple of decades or so.

Other species were present in rather lower numbers than expected - very few dunlin (less than 200); curlew (no more than 20); grey plovers (only a handful).