WWT Slimbridge A WHOOPER SWAN on the Rushy. Two DARK-BELLIED BRENT GEESE on the Dumbles viewed from the Estuary Tower. The juvenile SPOONBILL still on South Lake this morning. Also 11 Cattle Egrets, ten Avocets and a female Goldeneye. A Water Rail at Willow hide. The Little Stint still on the Dumbles and six Ruff on the Tack Piece today. (Dot Jones/Tim Jukes/Oliver Paisey/Paul Masters/Martin Price).
Haw Bridge Eight Egyptian Geese today on the flood bank. (Robin Lewis).
Cotswold Water Park West This morning on Pit 44, 15+Red Crested Pochards and a drake Goldeneye, on Pit 57, eight Goosanders, six Cormorants and 30+ Canada Geese dropped in. At Shorncote the hide inaccessible as the footpath was flooded but three Water Rails heard and a Cetti’s Warbler. (Steve Pullen).
Sharpness From the picnic area two Curlews, three Redshanks, 20 Lapwings, a Little Egret, five Grey Herons, a pair of Wigeon, ten Mallards, c30 Black-headed Gulls, two Great Black-backed Gulls, two Lesser Black-backed Gulls and eight Cormorants. (Helen Bojaniwska).
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