Pink-footed Geese  

                                                                               Kestrel

                                                                      Golden Plovers

                                                                        Whooper Swans



          On the shore between Stonebridge and Pye's Hall were 1,300 Brent Geese, 200 Redshanks, 200 Oystercatchers, 500 Dunlin, 30 Curlews and 30 Grey Plovers.   On the realignment area were 130 Shelducks, the Ruddy Shelduck hybrid, 115 Teal, a further 75 Redshanks, one Greenshank, one Common Snipe, 2,400 Golden Plovers, 135 Lapwings, 62 Dunlin, 12 Curlews, 10 Little Egrets, 3 Grey Herons and 11 Little Grebes.   210  Pink-footed Geese in four skeins headed south and 37 Whooper Swans arrived from the north and alighted in the NW corner.
          Raptors were 3 Common Buzzards, 5 Kestrels and a Sparrowhawk and other birds of note were the Water Pipit again, 16 Rock Pipits, 90 Skylarks, 3 Twite, 55 Linnets, 45 Goldfinches, 5 Siskins, one Stonechat and 13 Grey Partridges.
         A Chiffchaff and 2 Blackcaps were trapped and ringed at the south end.