Wetland Bird Survey - September 2019

There is a lot of water on the reserve at the moment, all the rain combined with loads of water in the River Trent has meant that water levels went up by 2 foot in the course of a fortnight. This has meant that a lot of the muddy areas on site, which had been luring in a good selection of wading birds were and still are submerged. There have still been some 'good' birds about recently though, including marsh harrier, great white egret, wheatear and stonechats. The winter wigeon flock is starting to build and a nice selection of species were picked up on the latest WeBS count (which was carried out prior to the sudden increase in water levels!):

Photo below : a hungry swallow ©Stuart Carlton    Twitter: @StuartCarlton48