At long last, I have a birdwatching report for you!
TIME - 13:10 - 15:25
CONDITIONS - boggy underfoot, overcast, poor light.
COMPANY - Dad in last 10 mins.
Plenty seen despite the conditions.
30 Shelduck
Usual Mallards
70 Wigeon
20 Greylag Geese
400 Canada Geese - the place is getting over-run with them!
2 Barnacle Geese
500 Brent Geese. No light-bellied or Black Brant seen
1 Domestic (white) goose
6 Little Grebes
Enormous flock of Lapwings - about 2000 I'd say
5000 - 6000 Knot on shoreline
About 60 Curlew - 50 on wetland, 10 on lagoon banks
10 Redshank
1 Turnstone in winter plumage
7 Black-tailed Godwits
2 Little Egrets
1 Grey Heron
20 Black-headed Gulls
4 Herring Gulls
6 Blackbirds
4 flocks of Starlings
1 Robin
1 Wren
2 Blue Tits
Mixed flock of Goldfinch, Chaffinch and Greenfinch
4 Tree Sparrows
Kingfisher seen by someone else
No owls
No raptors