Wed 9th Dec 20

I started this morning checking the arable in front of the hide from the lay-by on the B1032 and had 7 Mute Swans, 162 Greylags, 110 Lapwings, 5 Red-legged Partridge & lots of Starlings. Moving on to the Chippings lay-by, on the marsh west of the road were 101 White-fronted Geese, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, lots of Corvids and Gulls.

On the main site still loads of Blackbirds along the approach road with a few Redwing and with not so many people around in the colder weather a singing Song Thrush in the Badger Sett was a real pleasure. On the beach beside the sluice were 5 Turnstone and 3 Purple Sands + 3 Cormorants were with the mixed gull flock on the sluice rocks. MR

From the hide: 1 Greylag, c75 Teal, 6 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 1 Wigeon, 1 Lt. Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Stonechat, 1 Reed Bunting. JH/MR.

Reports from today: 

John Hall

11:11 Flight of 16 Canada Geese over scrape south.