Wednesday 20th August: Garganey, Godwits & Greenshank
This morning still overcast though much calmer.
There was a bit more of interest on the Meadow this morning. In the south channel there were now 5 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS. Between the Burgess creek and the north cove a single GREENSHANK was briefly present and in the north cove a COMMON SANDPIPER. There were a total of 7 RINGED PLOVER and 3 juvenile DUNLIN in the north channel and 10+ SNIPE dotted around the place. A single LITTLE EGRET was in the ditch that runs along the boundary with Burgess Field NR and there were quite a few grey herons around.
On the water fowl front, the usual ducks: teal, widgeon, shoveler, gadwall and a single GARGANEY feeding in the flooded grass on the west side of the Burgess channel.
A grey heron, taken in better lighting conditions © Adam Hartley
There was a bit more of interest on the Meadow this morning. In the south channel there were now 5 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS. Between the Burgess creek and the north cove a single GREENSHANK was briefly present and in the north cove a COMMON SANDPIPER. There were a total of 7 RINGED PLOVER and 3 juvenile DUNLIN in the north channel and 10+ SNIPE dotted around the place. A single LITTLE EGRET was in the ditch that runs along the boundary with Burgess Field NR and there were quite a few grey herons around.
On the water fowl front, the usual ducks: teal, widgeon, shoveler, gadwall and a single GARGANEY feeding in the flooded grass on the west side of the Burgess channel.
A grey heron, taken in better lighting conditions © Adam Hartley