Thanks to David Ord, Richard and Rob for helping with todays count.
David and Rob had a Black Tailed Godwit and Curlew on their walk up the corse, along with Fieldfare.
The highlight for me, as Richard and I walked down to hide, was I nearly trod on a Jack Snipe!
Rob spotted sparrowhawk bombing through while we were in the hide. A total of 3 Buzzards and 2 Marsh Harriers made up the rest of the raptors.
As Toby reported recently there are a large number (for the corse) of Pintail present, though we only got our count to 19. Our other counts for the ducks were 80 Shoveller, 80 Mallard, 80 Wigieon and 240 Teal.
The young Whooper Swan is still hanging out with the 2 Mute Swans.
There were 4 Little Egret on the upper section along with 4 Greylag. We also had 2 Common Gull, 42 Herring Gull and 43 Black Headed Gull.
Our Golden Plover count was again low this month at 29!
Other birds included 250 Lapwing, 81 Snipe, 3 Moorhen, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail and a couple of Water Rail were heard in the reedbed.
Somehow the resident Grey Heron for the second time has eluded the WeBS count and we failed to hear the usual Cettis warblers today!
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| Lone Lapwing that landed near hide |
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| Take off! Pintail making their exit |
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| Whooper still present |
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| One of the two Marsh Harriers |