5/10/13 Slimbridge WWT sightings

Very nice to see so much variety of birds.

Holden Tower

• 100+ feral banacle geese
• 30+ small waders
• 50+ meadow pipits in one flock
• 50+ greylag geese
• 8 WHITE FRONTED GEESE- Extremely close at one stage as they flew in together from the Zeiss hide lake/pool and joined the greylags when no other birdwatchers were about but were very wary and ended up flying out onto the estuary which was quite distant.

Knott pool

• 1 NUTHATCH- I think they are quite rare on the reserve but could be wrong

Tack piece

• 50+ greylags
• 50+ teal
• 3 shovelers- 2 male and a female
• 1 buzzard
• Black headed gulls

Zeiss hide

• 100+ black tailed godwits
• 50+ lapwings
• 1 Ruff
• 10 pintails
• Other ducks
• 10+ Canada geese
• 100+ rooks
• 1 COMMON CRANE- wild, unringed and has been here for a few weeks now.

Rushy pool

• 30+ teal
• 10+ pied wagtails
• 1 grey wagtail
• Morhens
• Coots
• Cormorants
• Corvids

Bird feeder hide

• 5 chiffchaff
• 1 female blackbird
•  5 blue tits

Photos

 Teal

 Shoveler

 White fronted geese

 Pintail female

WILD COMMON CRANE