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Great you got to do this Alan as I was running about a bit trying to count East and West of the peninsula in case you couldn’t do the WEBS…you got more Godwits than me on the Lades side….they seemed very flighty…. Lots of waders in fields Today.
On the Middleton Sands side for the WEBS…(plus some more Jan survey stuff ‘highlights’)
380 Oystercatcher
550 Bar Tailed Godwit
31 Black Tailed Godwit
2120 Dunlin
720 Knot
8 Turnstone
277 Grey Plover
7 Snipe
94 Redshank
332 Lapwing
248 Curlew
470 Wigeon
6 Mallard
33 Shelduck
2 Little Egret
9 LBBG
4 GBBG
2 Herring Gull
17 B H Gulls
1 Cormorant
1 Moorhen
In addition…155 Golden Plover, 210 Curlew, 350 Lapwing in fields to rear of Potts Corner
Other stuff
23 Twite
36 Fieldfare
8 Redwing
1 Tree Sparrow
8 Long Tailed Tit
1 Rock Pipit
3 Meadow Pipit
1 Reed Bunting
1 Grey Wagtail
Male Sparrowhawk
Several Hundred PF Geese in fields East of Heysham Moss whilst driving past.