Slimbridge WWT Sightings 9/12/12

Lots of sightings due to the flooded fields and there was some great wader displays when all the waders were in the air and then a perigrene flew under making the waders spooked and the ducks alert.

Tack piece sightings

6 redshanks

 

                                                                   Pochard male

lapwing front with lots of golden plovers

• 10 bewick swans
• 20+ shovelers
• 41 pintails
• 20 mallard ducks
• 40+ teals
• 100+ wigeons
• 1 buzzard
• 1 perigrene
• 40+ black headed gulls chasing the dunlin because of food
• 1 great black backed gull
• 3 herring gulls
• 200+ lapwings
• 100+ golden plovers
• 60+ black tailed godwits
• 200+ dunlin
• 20+ pochards
• 90+ curlews
• 1 LONG BILLED DOTWICHER was breifly sighted flying over with the black tailed godwits
• 90 redshank
• 1 grey heron
• Several canada geese
• A few greylag geese
• Lots of corvids

Garden birds from the feeder hide (Tack peice)

                                                        Winter adult male chaffinch

Jackdaw

• 30+ chaffinches
• 4 mallards
• 4 cormarants flew over
• 17 canada geese
• 1 great spotted woodpecker
• 20+ blue tits
• 10+ great tits
• 1 robin
• 40+ jackdaws
• 4 adult bewick swans flew over

Road fields

                                           4 bewick swans with lapwings

• 16 bewick swans
• 20 white fronted geese
• 200+ lapwing
• 1 female sparrowhawk
• 1 carrion crow
• 40+ rooks

Zeiss hide

                                                                  Bittern

• 30+ mallards
• lots of corvids
• 30+ lapwings
• 3 pintails
• 20 pochards
• 1 Bittern very hard to see in the reedbeds
• 1 Cettis warbler heard from the reeds