I did my WeBS count today, a day early, because I have a rather important football match to go to tomorrow. I'm already starting to get nervous, I hate derby days. The buses leave St James' at 10am, we've found a pub that opens at 9 so we can get a couple of nerve settlers in before we set off.
No bitterns today, or yesterday when I checked at first light....humph.
There was lots of wildfowl on the Budge fields, mainly wigeon, teal and mallard. Shoveler, gadwall, goldeneye and tufted duck were year-ticks.
Top counts were:
teal 226
wigeon 197
mallard 78
redshank 41
lapwing 58
It was very windy, force 4-5, from the west which made the big pool very choppy, giving the four coots cowering in the Phragmites bed, the place to themselves.
Nothing much else to report
51 shoveler
52 tufted duck
53 gadwall
54 goldeneye
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