28 & 29 September 2024
Sunday 29 September
Kingfisher Hide
Two Hobby and two Jays.
South Lake
Seven Cattle Egret, 28 Avocet, Greenshank, 4 Snipe, 54 Lapwing, 12 Pochard, 154 Black-tailed Godwit, Shelduck, GC Grebe and 7 Cormorant.
Middle Point
Two juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls among 200+ Herring Gulls, Barnacle x Greylag Goose hybrid and Swan Goose with the Canada Goose flock, 14 Cranes on the sands, 2 Great and 5 Little Egret, 2 Dunlin, 22 GBB Gull, 12 Wigeon and 50 Curlew.
Top New Piece
31 Golden Plover among 207 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, a Ruff, 28 Shoveler and 301 Teal.
Rushy Hide
Four Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank (moving off to Severn), 2 Green Sandpiper, 10 Redshank, 4 Snipe, 22 Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Kingfisher on the Swan Pipe, 3 Swallow over.
General
Passage of Swallows and Meadow Pipits of note.
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28 September 2024
Estuary from Middle Point
Three Dunlin, 6 Knot, 4 Golden Plover, 46 Curlew, 140 Shelduck, 89 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, 3 Little Egret, 6 Heron, 1 Peregrine, 1 Marsh Harrier. 6 Chiffchaff with 2 Blackcap and 25 Goldfinch around the Goose House Hut and along the Summer Walkway. 9 Crane in fields to north.
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27 September 2024
Middle Point
Two Grey Plover, 2 Swallows, 24 Curlew, 4 Little Egret, 201 Shelduck. Ross’s Goose with Barnacles on The Dumbles.
