Sightings

Main sighting: Shelduck

Pretty quiet apart from three separate families of Shelduck.one with 6-juvs. one with 4-juvs.and one with 8-juvs.All ducklings roughly 35% adult size.12h00-12h50

Main sighting: Red Kite

Mature Red Kite circling over The Narth today and also on 17th July.

Main sighting: Great White Egret

x2 Great White Egrets are now amongst the large flock of Little Egrets, along with roughly x10 Grey Herons. The flock was viewable in a boggy field just off of Church Road, close to the M48.

Main sighting: Great white egret

Great white egret in flock of 80 plus little egret and 20 plus grey heron in nedern valley

Main sighting: Nightjar

Nightjar heard but not seen near to first house from car park.21h50

Main sighting: Little Egrets

81 Little Egrets with 19 Grey Herons at Nedern. All feeding on tadpoles in what remains of the water.

Main sighting: Little Egrets

Large number of little egrets 50+ all gathered in one area with 14 grey herons.

Main sighting: Sand Martins

Afternoon visit: Hide 2 – reed warbler singing, 73 lapwing, 25 dunlin, 1 lt egret, linnets, 94 black-headed gulls with 5 juvs mixed in, 6 ringed plovers, 2 little ringed plovers, green woodpecker calling, pheasant, gt spotted woodpecker flying and 1 heron. Seawall – 6 sand martins over the lagoon, on the saltmarsh, 52 curlew, 118 shelduck and 32 oystercatchers with a single starling on the seawall itself. Hide three – reed bunting, skylarks and a little grebe. Near the car park, goldcrest, chiffchaff family group and common whitethroat contact call. Other: Tawny owl pellet, gatekeepers and meadow browns, 1 red admiral, possible comma and an emperor dragonfly.

Main sighting: Common Sandpiper

Sedge warblers, chiffchaffs, reed warbler, moorhen with chicks, sparrowhawk with a small bird being mobbed by several house martins. Pool hide – a common sandpiper flew in but couldn’t find anywhere to land so flew straight back out. 2 pairs of little grebes with young, 12 little egrets and a pair of grey herons with 2 fledging. Other: grass snake, common blue, painted lady, ringlets, gatekeeper and emperor dragonfly.

Main sighting: Red kite

A red kite spotted near doctors surgery.

Main sighting: Spoonbill flying over (photos)

Circa 50 Black tailed godwits until raptor flew over, 2 redshank, curlew, ringed plover, marsh harrier, lapwings, dunlin, graylag geese. One spoonbill flew over 12:00 ish, sadly did a circuit and flew on.

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red Kite circling over The Narth at 11.00am – possibly a juvenile.