The moulting drake Green-winged Teal reappeared in an area with no general access with 187 Teal, the first sighting since 13 December. Also in the estuary, 193 Dark and a Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 110 Shelduck, 95 Wigeon, eight Greenshank, an Avocet and a Kingfisher.
Elsewhere the first Fulmar of the year was offshore with the three Eider, three Great Northern and a Red-throated Diver, with at least six Shoveler at the Main Pond and 25 Siskin, two Chiffchaff and single Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker in the bushes.
Year list additions:
82. Green-winged Teal
83. Great Spotted Woodpecker
84. Pheasant
85. Avocet
86. Rook
87. Fulmar
88. Reed Bunting
89. Coal Tit
Other Wildlife: Now is a good time to look for signs of the recently arrived and rapidly spreading Alexanders Straw Aethes deaurana, search the seeds left attached to dead Alexanders for larval exit holes.
larval feeding signs of Alexanders Straw Aethes deaurana - Kevin Rylands
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