Yellow Wagtail - one of 12 on Orcombe Point late yesterday afternoon.
Orcombe Point today - again pretty birdless with just 3+ Grey Wagtails, 1 Yellow Wagtail, c15 Meadow Pipits, 5 Swallows, 2 Blackcaps, 1+ Goldcrest, 11+ Chiffchaffs and 2 Wheatears. Masses of Silver Y nectaring on Red Clover and kicked up from long grass.
Mudbank getting busy now with another surge in wildfowl numbers - 900+ Wigeon, c110 Pintail, c40 Teal, c180 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Pale-bellied Brent Goose, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Shoveler, 40 Mute Swans (38 adult and just 2 juvs), c110 Shelducks and the Pintail x Wigeon hybrid. A Ruff this evening was my first of the year. Also off Mudbank - 13 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Turnstones, 1 Whimbrel, 5 Sandwich Terns, 1 first-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtails, a fly-by Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Grey Herons and an Osprey. Mallard and Canada Geese not counted but present in high numbers.
Yesterday - Orcombe Point - 12 Yellow Wagtails and 1 Stonechat on a brief post work visit. Off Mudbank - 1 Osprey, 600+ Teal, 1 Greenshank and the hybrid Pintail x Wigeon.
Drake Tufted Duck centre with Pintail and Wigeon.
Wigeon numbers jumped to c900 today.
The Osprey caused a great deal of disturbance on the lower estuary late this morning...
...at one point putting all 180+ Brent Geese up. It's wonderful to hear their calls once again.
It was upsetting to see this first-winter Yellow-legged Gull hooked up to a discarded fishing lure or some such piece of equipment.
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