Sightings

Main sighting: Shelduck & Porpoise

High tide 1230 hrs, while watching three flotillas of shelduck heading downriver a fin breached the surface several times also heading downriver. Twice breaching clear confirming a harbour porpoise !

Main sighting: Goshawk and confirmed via sound ID

Sat in tree after missing a small bird

Main sighting: Nightjar

Nightjar churring in distance from Beacon Hill direction.

Main sighting: Site maintenance

Work has commenced on the 14^th July 2025 at the lagoons and will continue over the next two / three weeks as work is being undertaken to reduce the amount of vegetation around the lagoons and to de-silt the internal ditches at the site.

Main sighting: Whimbrel

Ebbing tide, very windy. Whimbrel 3 Grey Plover 1 Little Egret 10 Redshank 60 Curlew 1 Common Sandpiper 2

Main sighting: Whinchat

Whinchat on NW slope. Spotted Flycatcher (2), several Stonechat and a juv cuckoo flying/calling on NE slope.

Main sighting: Hobby

Highlights o today’s WeBS count. Hobby 1 Kestrel 2 Buzzard 2 Marsh Harrier 1 GWE 2 Little Egret 19 Spoonbill 1 LRP 3 Knot 1 Black-tailed Godwit 452 Avocet 10 Greenshank 2
Black-headed Gull 310. Monk’s and Bec’s lagoons are completely dry. There were also good numbers of Sand Martins.

Main sighting: Yellow Wagtails

At least 9 Yellow Wagtails on the foreshaw and 2 Common Sandpipers on the Ebbw

Main sighting: Kingfisher

2 kingfisher, little egret, juv dipper,, 2 ravens, chiffchaff, 2 song thrush, a greenfinch, 2 goldfinch, 2 swallows, 3 swifts, 30 sand martins, a blackcap, 32 Canada geese, 20 lbbg, 3 juv long tail tits. Under the railway bridge, a chub and a barbel.

Main sighting: Goosander

9-Goosanders,eight fully grown ducklings and mum.Apart from that,very quiet.No Sand Martins I think they must have dispersed after breeding as ,on my last visit, April 7th there was a lot of activity around the nest holes in the river bank.

Main sighting: Mediterranean Gulls

Mediterranean Gull (3)
Common Gull (2)
Black Headed Gull (c450)
Grey Plover (1)
Whimbrel (2)
Bar-Tailed Godwit (2)
Common Sandpiper (1)
Dunlin (3)
Oystercatcher (5)
Redshank (20)
Curlew (4)
Lapwing (8)
Little Egret (4)
Grey Heron (1)
Shelduck (30)
Cormorant (1)
Stick Dove (2)
Hundreds of Swallows and Martins on the move

Main sighting: Great White Egret

I had a quick look here and on leaving I put up an GWE from the reen between the first and second hides – sorry late posting