It may be mid-March, but winter is definitely still in full swing here at Langford, with temperatures struggling to get above 0C and an inch of snow yesterday and the forecast not looking too much better for today either! And being the middle of the month, it was of course time for the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) once again. Here are yesterday’s results….
256 tufted duck
62 mallard
43 teal
29 wigeon
13 goldeneye
10 pochard
7 pintail
2 gadwall
5 mute swan
9 cormorant
56 coot
3 moorhen
5 great crested grebe
2 little grebe
2 grey heron
1 little egret
10 snipe
1 oystercatcher
1 green sandpiper
98 black-headed gull
1 common gull