Sightings

Main sighting: Wood Sandpiper

WeBS count today. Further to the posting by Blair. Wood Sandpiper from the first hide. Also Avocet 2 Knot 6 (one in BP) Greenshank 1

Main sighting: Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper

Morning visit just after dawn – Monks Lagoon was busy with waders –
6 x Ruff, 1 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Green Sandpiper,20 + Black Tailed Godwits, 10+ Redshank Mixed flock of 50+ Dunlin and Ringed Plover feeding on the mud – contained 2 x Turnstone, 1 x Curlew Sandpiper and 1 x Little Stint.
Large flock of 50+ Shoveler and Teal.
7 x Little Egrets, 1 x Marsh Harrier came in quite close to Hide 2.
Chiffchaff near Hide 1 . 6 x Mute Swans.
other 1 x Jersey. Tiger Moth

Main sighting: Marsh Tit

First on bird table for well over a year, usually regular in colder months but not last winter. Breeds locally (juvenile seen last year). Starlings (up to 30) and House Sparrows most numerous table users at present.

Main sighting: tufted duck

Fairly quiet this morning.1-Ruff in with a small 25+flock of Lapwings,1-Bittern flying between reed beds.Also a family group of eight well grown Tufted Ducklings with their mother on the small lagoon alongside the fence between the sea wall view point and sea wall hide.

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby made a low level pass over the moor, then soared and circled. Three Whinchats, two Tree Pipits but only one Wheatear.

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby over The Narth once more at 11.30 this morning among Hirundines.

Main sighting: Bittern

Good numbers of waders from the first two hides this morning,especially Dunlins and Ringed Plovers.Also 1-Greenshank,1-Ruff,1-Spoonbill,1-Snipe,1-Whinchat and a Bittern which must have been unnoticed between the second hide and the waters edge flew up and around before coming to land to the left of the sea wall hide.11h10-12h50

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby patrolling over The Narth this morning.

Main sighting: Stock doves

8 stock doves, 1 buzzard, numerous meadow pipits and goldfinches

Main sighting: Spotted Flycatcher

Single bird seen on edge of grounds long with goldfinches, blue tits, a greenfinch, 5 linnets, 1 song thrush and two chaffinches.

Main sighting: Green Sandpiper

1 juvenile Green Sandpiper, a juvenile Cuckoo was seen being fed by a Reed Warbler, other warblers in the hedges included a couple of Lesser Whitethroats and Whitethroats and 1 Willow Warbler. Several Shrill Carder Bees in the parking area at Redhouse Barns, around various pea flowers, was nice.

Main sighting: Spoonbills and Green Sandpiper

En-route hide 1 – swallows, great tit, woodpigeons, cettis, (in the reen by the bridge – kingfisher, little egret and mallard), gt spotted woodpecker pair, jackdaws, blue tits, magpies, goldfinches and 2 whitethroats. Hide one – 3 buzzards (inc very light-morph bird), green sandpiper, Canada geese, pied wagtail, 7 dunlin, 4 stock doves, 2 snipe and 19 ringed plovers. Hide two – linnets, 77 lapwing, 23 black-headed gulls, 28 more dunlin (3 juvs included), family group of 6 whitethroats, robin, 3 more snipe, 2 swallows, 1 swift, 3 herons, green woodpecker calling, moorhen, 25 black-tailed godwits, 2 chiffchaffs, starlings, collard dove, 1 willow warbler, 7 mute swans, herring gulls and marsh harrier. Snipe platform – family group reed warblers, 2 house martins, pair lt grebes with 3 chicks, tufted family group, 7 gadwall, greylags, 34 coot, 4 redshanks, little owl pellet and raven. Seawall – 168 shelduck, 2 curlew, whimbrel calling, 25 oystercatchers, 17 more house martins and 18 swallows, ls black-backed gulls and sparrows. Hide three – male pintail, pair of spoonbills roosting, juv stonechat, skylark, 3 teal, 1 sand martin. Juvenile redstart on way back out close to hide 2. Other: 2 red admirals, countless gatekeepers.