Cress Marsh

Wood Sandpiper was highlight of my visit yesterday.
Also, in addition to Jon’s list below, there were 2 Yellow Wagtail.

Visited the site today (14:30 - 15:30). This was my first visit to the site since 14th March - just before the "Lock down" came into play. The water levels are a lot lower than during my previous visit, but the vegetation has grown significantly! Despite a fairly strong WNW wind blowing there were quite a few species of bird to be seen:

Avocet (15) - all on the islands in the lagoon
Black-headed Gull (4) - all on the islands in the lagoon
Buzzard (1) - soaring above the Lenzing factory
Canada Goose (2) - on area H
Carrion Crow
Coot (2) - on the lagoon
Cormorant (2) - on the lagoon
Great Black-backed Gull (1) - on area H
Greylag Goose (54) - on area H
Herring Gull ((5) - on area H
Lapwing (1) - on area B
Lesser Black-back Gull (25) - on the lagoon
Linnet (1) - along Long Path
Little Ringed Plover (1) - on area J
Magpie
Mallard (2) - on area G
Mute Swan (1) - on the lagoon
Oystercatcher (2) - nesting on island in lagoon
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail (1) - on lagoon bank
Red Kite (1) - as I was leaving the hide, the Shelduck and Avocets took flight. Looking up, I was expecting to see a Buzzard or Peregrine, but no, a Red Kite drifted in low off the Humber, flew over the Field Scrapes and Lagoon before gaining height and departing towards Healing!
Ringed Plover (3) - all on island in the lagoon
Shelduck (17) - 16 on area C and 1 on area G
Skylark (2) - over Field Scrapes
Swallow - several over the site
Woodpigeon
Yellowhammer (1) - along Long Path

All recorded in BirdTrack.

Stay safe everyone.

Visited today between about 1530 and1630hr

Sunny but with a howling (literally in the overhead wires!) gale. Not very pleasant.

Water levels in the scrapes still very low as you would expect and hardly a bird to be seen.

Lagoon - more fruitful
Avocet - c10
Mute swan - 1
Mallard - 5m
Lapwing - 2
Tufted duck -2m, 1f
Oystercatcher - 1
Little grebe - 2
Coot - 2
Pied wag - 2
Shelduck - 2
Black-headed gull - 2
Herring gull - at least 17
LBB gull - at least
Immature gulls
Magpie - 1
L R Plover - 1
Sand martin - 3
Swallows - a few
Carrion crow - 1 (harassed by lapwings)

Seen on way back to car, so not recorded in site log
Meadow pipit - 1
Skylark - 1
Grey lag geese - 3
Woodpigeon - 4
Stock dove - 1

Kind regards - Stay Safe
Martin

I visited between 1530 and 1600hr today (13th May)

Still a stiff cold wind but some welcome breaks in the cloud

As Joy has said, water levels in scrapes very low and barely a bird to be seen on them - just
Shelduck 14
Carrion crow 2
Magpie 2
Grey Lag 15 flew in
Gulls, various but mainly the larger species
Skylark 1 along the path

Lagoon - much more promising
Swallow numerous
House martin numerous
Coot 1
LRP 4
Common sand 1
Yellow wag 2
Pied wag 3
Tufted duck 2m, 1f
Mute swan 1
Mallard 1m, 1f
Avocet difficult to count, but at least 7
Gulls c60 (large, mixed and including immature)
Black-headed gull 4
Lapwing 1

(No swifts seen. I still haven't seen one anywhere!)

Kind regards - Stay Safe
Martin

Thanks Joy - that’s the most promising post I’ve yet seen from Cress Marsh.

First visit since lockdown so was not sure what to expect but pleasantly surprised. Water levels on scrapes is low but reasonable on the lagoon. Vegetation is getting tall but hopefully the imminent arrival on site of the cattle should help that.
Swift 3 (yay, my first!)
House Martin c 25
Swallows c 6
Coot 2
Common Sand 3,
Avocets c13
Mute Swan 1
Tufties 4
Mallard 2
Yellow Wag 1
Pied Wag 4
Buzzard 1
Oystercatcher 2
LRP 4
RP 2
Greylags 16
Cormorant 1
Shelduck 40
BH Gull 2
Herring Gull lots
LBB .. lots
Skylark c 6
Lapwing 2