Sightings

Main sighting: Goosanders

Female goosander and 9 young, little egret, grey heron, kingfisher, stock dove

Main sighting: Goosander

Pair of kingfisher parent and youngster, cormorant, F goosander with fishermans nightmare-26 youngsters!

Main sighting: Little egrets

3 little egrets, grey heron, cormorant, 18 swifts, 5 swallows, spotted flycatcher, female goosander

Main sighting: Goshawk

Large female Goshawk seen from my garden showing well above Mountain next to Tescos.

Main sighting: Curlew Sandpiper / Juvenile Dunlin

Blackcap 1, chiffchaff 2, common whitethroat 1, cettis 1 and reed warbler 1 (all singing birds). Redshank platform – 91 dunlin including a single juvenile bird, also 1 curlew sandpiper and 3 sanderling mixed in (1 in partial breeding plumage), greenshank 1, shoveler 2 pairs, gadwall 1 pair, ringed plover 9, avocet 2 pairs, lapwing 25 (good sized group at the moment), cuckoo calling towards the seawall tea rooms area, linnets, skylark singing, 2 herons, reed buntings, 2 swifts, 7 swallows and female kestrel. Seawall – 5 curlew only birds of note. Hide three – mute swan 12, oystercatchers 4, little egrets 3 and a pair of tufteds. back at redshank mid-morning – single black-tailed godwit. Other: common blue, meadow browns and small skipper butterflies, female hairy dragonfly and a dead mole.

Main sighting: Swift Survey

A reminder that the GOS Swift survey starts today until the end of the month. We would like you to submit records of nesting birds and screaming parties. Please see the Home Page for details. Thanks for your help.

Main sighting: Wheatear

Fledglings being fed at nest entrance by both parents, couple of Swifts overhead!

Main sighting: Goldcrest

Young fluffy goldcrest within 10 feet of the bench. Uk smallest bird.

Main sighting: Red Kite

Bedraggled red kite (feathers missing from both wings) quartering over fields adjacent to coffee shop for several minutes.

Main sighting: Eagle species

Several distant sighting throughout the day. Possible Booted Eagle

Main sighting: Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Got a video of Woody on my peanut feeder and he’s a healthy big one

Main sighting: Cuckoo and White Wagtail

Singing warblers included 2 chiffchaffs, 1 blackcap, 1 common whitethroat and 1 reed warbler. A pair of pheasants were feeding in the approach field and swift numbers over the lagoons were good with 81, and 7 house martins and 17 swallows mixed in. Hide two: 5 redshanks, 2 oystercatchers, 3 lapwing, 1 common buzzard (perched in a low bush, 1 (male) white wagtail, reed bunting (male), 2 shelduck, 78 dunlin (high tide), 1 grey heron, 2 little egrets and a male cuckoo which landed in a low hawthorn bush, eating at least 4 dark caterpillars before being harassed by a pair of meadow pipits (one of which was carrying food), eventually flew off towards the barns. Snipe platform – pair of tufteds and 8 mute swans. Hide three – pair of avocet, male teal, 4 black-tailed godwits (non breeding plumage), 2 black headed gulls, pair of linnets and a pair of gadwall and a lone female. Other: hairy dragonfly, small whites.