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Joe Harris (RSPB Langford Lowfields Site Manager)

Firstly, here's a nice article about the recent land transfer that went up on the BBC website recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64919469

Secondly, this month's WeBS count recorded the highest number to date of shoveler on site - 108, the previous highest WeBS count was 82 back in April 2021. We must be providing a good selection of tasty water snails and larvae to have lured in so many.

P1

P2

P3

Total

Cormorant

4

6

10

20

Greylag goose

8

40

10

58

Canada goose

9

1

8

18

Black headed gull

26

6

33

65

Great crested grebe

3

2

13

18

Coot 

10

24

47

81

Gadwall

1

4

12

17

Tufted duck

72

111

52

235

Pochard 

7

3

5

15

Mute swan

2

3

5

Mallard

2

14

30

46

Water rail

1

1

2

Grey heron

2

2

4

Great white egret

1

2

3

Teal

19

42

61

Lapwing

45

45

Snipe

4

4

Pintail

3

3

Goldeneye

37

37

Curlew

6

6

Oystercatcher

2

2

Little egret

2

2

Little grebe

3

3

Common gull

7

7

Shoveler

108

108

Wigeon

306

306

Herring gull

1

1

Lesser black back gull

2

2

Lots of interesting bird activity on site recently, booming bitterns, the earliest ever Langford sand martin, avocet, red kite, raven, barn owl, stonechats. Coltsfoot is in flower, blossom is on the blackthorns and bumblebees are (when it's not too windy) bumbling around.

Pair of shoveler taken by Stuart Carlton