It's been a couple of weeks since the count, but we haven't forgotten March's Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS), this month completed by volunteers Matt Marsh, Stuart Carlton and Mark Dawson. Here are their results....
100 tufted duck
54 wigeon
39 mallard
36 teal
6 goldeneye
5 gadwall
3 pintail
2 shoveler
1 pochard
13 mute swan
4 Canada goose
2 greylag goose
6 great crested grebe
2 little grebe
76 coot
2 moorhen
2 little egret
2 cormorant
14 lapwing
4 snipe
3 green sandpiper
120 black-headed gull
12 common gull
Migrants are starting to come through now, with the first sand martins, little ringed plover and wheatear on site in the last 10 days. Avocet have been seen and the first chiffchaffs are singing away in the scrub around the silt lagoons.
Back at Langford for the summer! Ben Hall (rspb-images.com)