Sightings

Main sighting: Swifts

Jackdaws, collard doves, house sparrows, crows, blue tits, woodpigeons, magpies, herring gulls, swallows, chiffchaffs, 5 stock doves, starlings, linnets, 6 swifts, reed warbler, skylark, meadow pipits, stonechat, whitethroat, Canada geese, black headed gulls, pheasants, 253 shelduck (6 chicks also seen), curlew, 3 black tailed godwits, mallard, 2 little egrets, grey heron, 2 siskins over, wren, lesser black-backed gulls, redshank, pied wagtail, 3 cormorants, house martins, juvenile female kestrel, reed bunting and lesser whitethroat.

Main sighting: Com sand

5 Com sands

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.