Hello,
I hope you had a great Mother’s Day. Lots of visitors brought their Mums for a day out at RSPB Frampton Marsh, and as usual, we had lots of birds to show them.
Highlights included:
Pink-footed goose 3
Dark-bellied brent goose 750+
Wigeon 220+
Gadwall 26
Shoveler 28
Tufted duck 42
Little grebe 4
Great crested grebe 6
Little egret 4
Buzzard 2
Osprey 1 (flew over reedbed and saltmarsh)
Kestrel 3
Merlin 1
Coot 110+
Oystercatcher 4
Avocet 30
Little ringed plover 8
Ringed plover 8
Golden plover 150 (many in summer plumage)
Dunlin 12
Ruff 14
Snipe 4
Black-tailed godwit 28 (many in summer plumage)
Bar-tailed godwit 2
Stock dove 3
Little owl 2
Sand martin 12
Swallow 1
Yellow wagtail 15
White wagtail 4
Wheatear 1
Linnet 22
Twite 35
Lapland bunting 4
Yellowhammer 3
Corn bunting 32
Cheers,
Simon.