Apologies for the lack of blogs in the last week – I’m now back from holiday and the first job of the day was the monthly Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS). Here are this morning’s results….
109 mallard
79 teal
54 tufted duck
35 gadwall
10 shoveler
2 wigeon
2 pochard
25 mute swan
233 coot
6 moorhen
9 great crested grebe
5 little grebe
6 cormorant
5 grey heron
3 little egret
1 kingfisher
32 lapwing
10 snipe
2 dunlin
2 green sandpiper
10 lesser black-backed gull
7 black-headed gull
Also on site (or over site!) were a group of 32 golden plover going north over Phase 1 – my first golden plover over Langford this autumn, a group of 8 ringed plover, also going north over the silt lagoons and Phase 2, a female marsh harrier over the silt lagoons and a hobby still on site on Phase 1.