Sunday 18 March 2018

Sunday 18th March

A day of heavy snow from 10.30am to dusk although not as bitterly cold as earlier in the month. A lone Golden Plover hiding behind a bramble clump in Greenland Lake was the prelude to another extraordinary and unseasonal cold weather movement. Flocks of Golden Plover passed through SW, regularly all day from c.11:00. In the evening, small flocks returned NE to join a massive roost in The Bight, which at dusk had reached on unprecedented 689. The day's total of 1686 is the second highest count ever and surpasses the site's total bird-days up until the end of 2017.

Also moving west during the day two Woodlark, a Yellowhammer, 2161 Fieldfare, 1290 Redwing, 175 Meadow Pipit, 130 Black-headed Gull, 20 Snipe, 15 Skylark, 10 Lesser Black-backed Gull, just nine Lapwing and a Mistle Thrush.

Elsewhere four Chiffchaff were attempting to find food in the snow, the Glaucous Gull was on Finger Point, counts from the estuary included 496 Oystercatcher, 214 Dunlin, 102 Curlew, a notable increase, 73 Grey Plover, 47 Knot, 13 Sanderling and a Ringed Plover.

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