18th Dec
Conder Green – Pool still frozen
Dunlin 20
Fieldfare 40
Stonechat 1
No Avocet for a few weeks – the colour marked bird yellow 71, which was hatched in 2022, was last seen on 9th Nov at Conder Green, and was reported today from Braydon Water in Norfolk
Jeremy Lane/Moss Lane top
Whooper Swan 12 – plus about 100 that flew from Moss Lane towards Hillom before I could count them
Mute Swan 71
Peregrine 1 1stCY
Stonechat 1
Clarkson’s Farm fields
Bewick’s Swan 4 adults together
Whooper Swan 90
Marsh Harrier 1 juvenile
Blea Tarn
Red-breasted Merganser 1 fem.
Ian Hartley