Curlew Sandpiper and today's Sightings
Weather still and cloudy with an intermittent northerly breeze. Less small passerines about today than there has been for the past couple of weeks, but the water bird numbers are steadily growing as the weather becomes more autumnal.
The Rushy
2 Black Tailed Godwit
2 Ruff
1 Snipe
1 Green Sandpiper
41 Gadwal
The Holden Tower Walkway Hides
4 Buzzards and 50 Barnacle Geese from the Holden Tower.
South Lake
Was the busiest with birds this morning, the highlight being a Curlew Sandpiper flying between the Scrape and the Duck Marsh, visible from the Discovery hide and Hogarth Hide.
1 Curlew Sandpiper
3 Green Sandpiper
8 Snipe
33 Redshank
117 Black Tailed Godwit
Zeiss Hide
Quiet this morning but it is possible it might pick up shortly after midday as the tide comes in on the Estuary.
3 Grey Heron
1 Ruff
147 Barnacle Geese