I completed the monthly WeBS this morning with volunteer Rob Werran. It was a glorious sunny, calm day, if a little chilly, but the site looks fabulous on a lovely winter's day like this. Here are this morning's results....
340 teal
145 tufted duck
120 mallard
68 wigeon
26 gadwall
18 pochard
9 goldeneye
7 shoveler
4 pintail
8 mute swan
2 graylag goose
1 Canada goose
164 coot
13 moorhen
1 water rail
8 lapwing
6 snipe
2 redshank
4 grey heron
1 little egret
5 little grebe
1 great crested grebe
10 cormorant
151 black-headed gull
2 common gull
3 roe deer and a brown hare were mammal highlights and the feeding station on the eastern Cromwell Trail was bustling with birds including tree sparrow, reed bunting and bullfinch. Rob also has 312 pink-footed geese over this morning.