Mon 15th Mar 21

A short walk along the front after lunch was a real pleasure, a single Adder was taking the sun on the mounds and 5 Turnstone, 1 Purple Sand were on the Boating Club rocks. A look over the scrape from the pillbox gave lots of Teal & Wigeon, 11 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, c40 Lapwing, 26 Avocet, 24 Curlew (on marsh north of scrape), 10 Snipe, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Blk T Godwits, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 1 Dunlin.    

Reports from today:

Matt Lonsdale

07:19 Brief visit to haven this morning focused around raised platform - 3 Redwing, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Med Gulls (2cy+ad), c30 Curlew.

18:53 Haven this evening - Farm - 2 Corn Bunts having a sing off only birds of note. Couldn’t find a Wheatear or anything else of note on GC. 

From pillbox - Green Sand, 26 Avocet and 9 Snipe on scrape. 2 Blackwit and a Dunlin on flood to right and slight increase in both Shoveler and Mallard numbers (both low double figures). Barn Owl flying around and Water Rail calling to finish the evening.

John Hall

15:49 From raised platform : Scrape and flooded field beyond, 100 + Gulls mostly Herring, 3 Shelduck, Pair + 1 Male Shoveler. West of scrape field below car park, 12 Curlew. In Orchard 1 Goldcrest, 1 Wren in Spiny. Green Woodpecker on Telegraph Pole and what I believe was a distant Corn Bunting but bins only can’t be 100%.