It was a pretty quiet Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) this morning, especially considering the time of year – at least it was quiet for wetland birds – no so much when you consider the hundreds (maybe even pushing 1000) fieldfares and redwings feeding in the pathside shrubs and moving over the site. Here are this mornings results….
8 little grebe
2 great crested grebe
92 mallard
125 tufted duck
40 teal
25 gadwall
12 shoveler
4 wigeon
3 goldeneye
1 pochard
24 coot
2 moorhen
9 mute swan
2 grey heron
1 little egret
11 lapwing
1 snipe
8 cormorant
57 black-headed gull
1 common gull
1 great black-backed gull