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  • garry sharples
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      Great weather for the WEBS and Jan survey. Nice wader spectacle with the light winds and current higher tides (Jan / Feb generally being the peak of wader numbers here):
      Quite a few waders on inland fields as well as the usual HT roost:

      WEBS
      29 Brent Geese
      8850 Knot
      3310 Dunlin
      1250 Bar Tailed Godwit
      32 Snipe
      277 Grey Plover
      11 Ringed Plover
      455 Golden Plover
      310 Lapwing
      55 Black Tailed Godwit
      22 Turnstone
      855 Oystercatcher
      910 Curlew
      370 Redshank
      5 LBB Gulls
      2 GBB Gulls
      15 B H Gulls
      5 Cormorant
      1 Grey Heron
      3 Little Egret
      2 Mute Swan
      26 Moorhen
      15 Coot
      5 Tufted Duck
      2 Little Grebe
      19 Mallard
      25 Teal
      3 Goosander
      117 Shelduck
      635 Wigeon
      1 Eider

      Passerines (additional Jan survey)

      2 Stonechat – potts corner
      12 Meadow Pipit
      10 Reed Bunting
      3 Skylark
      3 Song Thrush
      1 Mistle Thrush
      12 Blackbird
      14 Blue Tit
      2 Great Tit
      9 Chaffinch
      3 Goldfinch
      6 House Sparrow
      12 Robin
      280 Starling
      2 Wren
      1 Dunnock
      3 Pied Wagtail
      10 Fieldfare
      1 Redwing
      7 Pheasant
      1 Sparrowhawk
      1 Kestrel
      34 Crows
      3 Magpie
      28 Wood Pigeon
      6 Collared Doves

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