Cress Marsh 2021

9th July
Weather: Overcast with sunny intervals, warm, SE breeze
Time on site: 17:10 - 18:35

Avocet    5
Black-headed Gull    13
Black-tailed Godwit    1
Buzzard    1
Carrion Crow    5
Chiffchaff    1 - heard singing from hedge adjacent to the railway line.
Collared Dove    1
Golden Plover    1 - feeding amongst Lapwing flock.
Goldfinch    1
Greenshank    1
Grey Heron    4
Greylag Goose    15
Kestrel    1
Lapwing    30
Lesser Black-backed Gull    2
Little Egret    8
Little Grebe    4
Little Ringed Plover    1
Mallard    14
Mute Swan    10
Oystercatcher    3
Pheasant    1
Pied Wagtail    2
Reed Bunting    1
Sedge Warbler    1 - singing from the ditch next to the long path.
Shelduck    2
Skylark    1
Song Thrush    1
Starling    3
Swallow    1 
Tufted Duck    1
Whitethroat    1 - singing in Hawthorn bush near car parking area
Woodpigeon    3
Yellow Wagtail    1 - catching insects on the edge of the lagoon.
Yellowhammer    1
Roe Deer  2 - on one of the islands in the lagoon.

All records entered into BirdTrack.

4th July
Weather: Overcast with sunny intervals, warm, S breeze
Time on site: 13:35-14:55

Avocet    4
Black-headed Gull    24
Blackbird    1
Buzzard    1
Carrion Crow    2
Great White Egret    1  - on island at the rear of the lagoon when I arrived. Bird then flew towards the Lenzig site on the Humber Bank.
Grey Heron    3
Greylag Goose    6
Herring Gull    19
Lapwing    8
Lesser Black-backed Gull    15
Little Egret    8
Little Grebe    3
Magpie    1
Mallard    6
Mute Swan    10
Oystercatcher    3
Pheasant    1
Pied Wagtail    1
Reed Bunting    1
Sedge Warbler    1
Shelduck    8
Stock Dove    2
Tufted Duck    2
Woodpigeon    10

Butterflies:
Small Tortoiseshell
Meadow Brown
Ringlet

All records entered into BirdTrack.

Thanks Jon, am afraid I won't be coming, next best thing is to view on here

Hello John,

It is a walking job to get decent views of the birds on site.  From the car parking area there is a cinder path which routes you between two of the areas where the scrapes are located up to the hide, from where you can view the lagoon and look back onto the scrapes.
The distance from the car park to the hide is approx 1 km.

Hope this helps.
 

Hello,

can the birds be viewed from the car or is it a walking job?

Cheers

Max

It was a pleasure to meet you too Jon