My dreary site visit on Saturday had to be early due to the local shoot arriving to blast more simple partridges out of the air and with forecast very grim for next 24 hours I was plotting an east coast jolly on the Sunday.
Jon however stuck to his guns and although got a severe drencing also recorded four year ticks for us with them being Greenshank, Rock Pipit, Pink-footed Goose and Knot. Much respect ! This took us to 136 for the year, just one below last years total but 7 off the 2018 record year. Richard Harbird visited during the afternoon and also had an excellent visit.
Jon's count included 48 Little Grebe, 14 Cormorant, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret (Pophills), 17 Mute Swans, four Pink-footed Geese on the flood, 195 Greylag Geese, 410 Canada Geese, 1 Wigeon (12 Saturday), 2 Gadwall, 36 Teal, 400 Mallard (plus 150 more on the Broom flood), 5 Shoveler, 36 Tufted Duck, 95 Coot, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Knot (second for site) on flood, 2 Dunlin, 1 Snipe (2 Saturday), 2 Greenshank on flood, (1 Lapwing Saturday) 1 Kingfisher, 65 Skylark, 40 House Martin, 5 Swallow, 250 Meadow Pipits, 1 Rock Pipit on flood, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 40 Pied Wagtail, 3 Stonechats, 5 Chiffchaff, 25 Long-tailed Tit and 4 Raven.
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