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BIRD SIGHTINGS
W/E 9 MAY 2022 |
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Red-throated diver |
1 offshore 3/5 |
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Bittern |
1 from Fen hide all week and
heard booming frequently |
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Brent goose |
63 on fresh marsh 7/5 |
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Red-crested pochard |
1 pair on fresh marsh all
week |
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Garganey |
1 on lagoons 5/5 |
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Long-tailed duck |
1 offshore 4/5 5/5 |
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Ruddy duck |
2 from Fen hide all week |
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Velvet scoter |
5 offshore 1/5 |
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Common scoter |
3200 offshore 7/5 |
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Osprey |
1 flying over reserve 4/5 7/5 |
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Marsh harrier |
4+ around reedbed all week |
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Montagu’s harrier |
1 female flying south over
saltmarsh 2/5 |
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Hobby |
1 flying over reserve 1/5 2/5
3/5 5/5 |
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Merlin |
1 over tidal lagoon 1/5 |
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Common crane |
1 flying east 4/5 |
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Avocet
|
100+ on lagoons all week |
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Common sandpiper |
1 on lagoons all week |
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Green sandpiper
|
1 on fresh marsh 7/5 |
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Wood sandpiper |
1 on fresh marsh 4/5 7/5 |
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Whimbrel |
2 on grazing meadow 2/5 |
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Spotted redshank |
2 on lagoons all week |
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Greenshank |
2 on saltmarsh 2/5 3/5 |
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Little gull |
17 on fresh marsh 7/5 |
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Mediterranean gull |
2 on lagoons 5/5 – 7/5 |
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Arctic tern |
4 on tidal pool 7/5 |
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Black tern |
9 on fresh marsh 7/5 |
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Common tern |
3 over sea 2/5 |
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Little tern |
3 on lagoons 5/5 |
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Sandwich tern
|
20+ over sea 1/5 |
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Turtle dove |
1 singing along Meadow trail
all week |
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Tree pipit |
1 flying west over reserve
1/5 |
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Yellow wagtail |
1on fresh marsh 6/5 |
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White wagtail |
1 on fresh marsh 5/5 |
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Wheatear |
6 on grazing meadow 5/5 |
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Whinchat |
1 around tidal lagoon 3/5 4/5 |
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Reed warbler |
2 singing on Fen trail all
week |
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Sedge warbler
|
3 males singing along west
bank path all week |
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Lesser whitethroat |
1 singing along Meadow trail
2/5 |