Pitsford WeBS count

Hello

The WeBS count was completed at Pitsford Reservoir today in dull and then latterly quite wet conditions. At least four Great White Egrets were present as were about 30 Little Egrets, in excess of 150 Cormorants, a Black Swan, a drake Red-crested Pochard, a juvenile Scaup, 2 drake Goosanders, 17 Pintail, 4 Redshanks, 4 Green Sandpipers, a Dunlin, 10 Snipe, up to 150 Golden Plovers flying around and a couple of Grey Wagtails. Blackbirds were in considerable numbers south of the causeway, stripping the berries from the hedgerows, and small numbers of Siskins were pretty mobile.

Regards

Neil M

Pintail.

Cormorant.
Image courtesy
of Steve Bennison.

Wigeon.
Image courtesy of
John Tilly.