Cress Marsh

Ferruginous duck this morning on main lagoon.

Then I wasn't the first to see it!
I noticed Tony Bryan had logged it during his visit (yesterday, I think) but he doesn't record his sightings on this website.

Thanks
Martin

I think that the Great Crested Grebe may be a first for the site.

Visited today 20/03/20, roughly between 1430 and 1530 hr
Broken cloud, stiff cold breeze blowing off river!

Lapwing 2 displaying over Crop Field
Gadwall 3 Field Scrapes
Shelduck at least 10, Field Scrapes
Grey Lag Geese 15 Field Scrapes
Teal 10 Field Scrapes
2 Lagoon
Ringed Plover 1 Field Scrapes
GBB Gull Field Scrapes
LBB Gull Field Scrapes
Herring Gull Field Scrapes
Little egret 1 Lagoon
Tufted Duck 2m 2f Lagoon
Mallard 1m 1f Lagoon
Gt Crested Grebe 1 Lagoon
Magpie 2
Carrion Crow 1
Pied Wagtail several
Mixed gulls Area G/H
Mipit 1 (not recoded in site log)
Linnet ca 10 (not recoded in site log)

Kind regards
Martin Francis

Visited site late this afternoon (15:50 to 17:00). Weather conditions : Overcast with a SE breeze blowing. Water levels in the "Pylon scrapes" area have dropped and areas of mud around the scrapes are showing. Water levels in other areas of the site are still very high.

Twenty-four species of bird recorded:

Black-tailed Godwit 1 (H)
Black-headed Gull 8 (H)
Cormorant 1
Gadwall 5 (Lagoon & H)
Great Black-backed Gull 12 (H)
Green Sandpiper 5 (H & I)
Greylag Goose 10 (D)
Herring Gull 11 (H)
Kestrel 1 (flew over Field Scrapes whilst being mobbed by half a dozen Pied Wagtails)
Lapwing 10 (Field & Pylon Scrapes)
Lesser Black Back Gull 9 (H)
Magpie
Mallard 2 (Lagoon)
Peregrine 1 (perched on Lenzing building)
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail 18
Reed Bunting 1 (along Long Path)
Shelduck 6 (B & F)
Skylark
Song Thrush 1 (singing in trees by car park)
Starling 50
Teal 18 (Lagoon, A & G)
Tufted Duck 2 (Lagoon)
Woodpigeon 200 (Long Hedge)

Also three Roe Deer at the side of the Lagoon.

Hi Jon

That is really interesting but I didn't see a peregrine at all despite trying to scan the skies occasionally and having a good look at the ledges on the power station chimneys.
I will remember what you have said during my next visit, though.
Thanks and best wishes
Martin