Wed 2nd Mar 22

Very slow progress on the site year list this year, but one more to add this morning with an Egyptian Goose picked up from the hide by Pete Davis on the marsh below the raised platform wandering around for a few minutes before flying out towards Holland-on-Sea. Also from the hide 8 Canada Geese were around the marsh, one pair spending sometime in the reeds on the island where they normally nest. Otherwise much the same with c40 lapwing, 5 BlkWits, 2 Avocet, 2 Oystercatchers, 1 Snipe all the usual ducks and 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel. PRD/LH/MR

 

Reports from today:

Brian Combes

18:28 This afternoon: 150+ Starling (on golf course), 170+ Black-headed Gull (on golf course), 2 Shelduck (north), 3 Stonechat, 5 Linnet, 5 Turnstone, 2 Purple Sandpiper (on sluice rocks then flew north with Turnstone), 2 Avocet, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Cetti’s Warbler (singing), 12 Curlew (north), Little Owl (in hedge where footpath to farm leaves the golf course, 1 Hare, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (calling from woods near farm).