WeBs Count for 21st January

21 January 2019

Our monthly WeBs counts, or Wetland Bird Surveys to give them thier full name, are an important part of our winter monitoring. This gives us a snapshot of numbers of all bird species using the reserve.

Bewick's swans 17
Blackbird 8
Black-tailed godwit 953
Black-headed gull 59
Blue tit 7
Buzzard 2
Canada goose 75
Cattle egret 3
Cetti's warbler 1
Chaffinch 9
Collard dove 1
Coot 319
Cormorant 7
Crow 22
Dunlin 9
Dunnock 1
Fieldfare 86
Gadwall 145
Goldfinch 75
Great black-backed gull 1
Great tit 14
Great white egret 8
Great spotted woodpecker 1
Green woodpecker 3
Grey heron 6
Greylag goose 61
Jackdaw 7
Jay 1
Kestrel 7
Lapwing 760
Lesser black-backed gull 6
Linnet 235
Little egret 2
Magpie 13
Mallard 1924
Marsh harrier 6
Meadow pipit 95
Mistle thrush 1
Moorhen 9
Mute swan 42
Phesant 11
Pintail 405
Pochard 455
Red-legged partridge 9
Redshank 14
Redwing 21
Reed bunting 8
Robin 5
Ruff 2
Shelduck 13
Shoveler 298
Snipe 95
Starling 212
Stonechat 3
Teal 5253
Tufted duck 113
Water pipit 1
White-fronted geese 2
Whooper swan 328
Wigeon 5924
Woodpigeon 16
Wren 5