27.07.13. Birdlog
A Green Sandpiper, Turnstone and Dunlin on No 6 tank.
Observer: Frank Duff.
Across the marsh at the Weaver Bend were 4 Oystercatcher, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Whimbrel, 20 Redshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 2 Ringed and Little Ringed Plover.
The female Marsh Harrier was mobbed by a Buzzard over the river and continued on her way west and a pair of Raven were cronking loudly nearby.
Passage of Swallows moving south east with a flock of 150 plus hundreds of Swifts feeding over Weston Point/Weaver estuary.
Observer: WSM.
Additionally No 6 tank still attracted some of the more commoner species with Tufted Duck, Shelduck and Canada Geese being evident.
Observers: Harley and Heather Wilde, Shaun Hickey and Keith
Nature Notes #23