Yesterday Stuart, Will and I completed the monthly Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) on a glorious warm, sunny autumn day – more of those please! Some winter wildfowl have joined us already and this will only increase in the next few weeks as we approach the beginning of winter. Yesterday’s results are as follows –
125 mallard
102 tufted duck
33 teal
22 shoveler
21 wigeon
1 pochard
40 mute swan
35 canada goose
2 greylag goose
2 cormorant
9 little egret
5 grey heron
11 great crested grebe
1 little grebe
156 lapwing
4 snipe
141 coot
8 moorhen
3 black-headed gull
1 kingfisher
Also on site yesterday were a nuthatch calling from the large oak trees on the public footpath, a grey wagtail over the Beach Hut and Stuart and Will had a nice group of reed and sedge warblers feeding together in reed on Phase 2 and several yellow wagtails over.