February 10th

A snowy and icy walk out onto the Marsh this morning produced 10 Woodcock, 87 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 231 Wigeon, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Tufted Duck, 53 Teal, 6 Shelduck, 3 Common Buzzards, 2 Grey Herons, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 Fieldfares, 235 Lapwings, 21 Skylarks, 27 Dunlin, 5 Sanderling, 6 Redwings, 30 Common Gulls, 1 Little Egret, 28 Golden Plovers, 450 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 wintering Greenshank (120th), 3 Stonechats, 18 Redshank, 5 Gadwall, 3 Curlew, 3 Pintail, 1 Egyptian Goose (121st), 1 Green Woodpecker, 28 Meadow Pipits, 2 Coot, 4 Moorhens, 5 Tundra Bean Geese flying N (122nd), 55 Stock Doves, 1 Peregrine, 2 White-fronted Geese flying N (123rd), 110 Linnets, 2 Kestrels, 1 Sparrowhawk and 1 Jay.