The marsh sandpiper heads the cast of waders currently present at Blacktoft. It has now been in this part of the Humber for 20 days! Today, like most of last week, singleton lagoon was the place to find this special bird. Other waders include almost 200 Black-tailed godwits, 14 spotted redshank, 65 dunlin, greenshank, ruff etc. This coming week we have highish tides in the mornings that hopefully will bring more waders onto our lagoons.
Other great birds around this week included bearded tits being seen on all lagoons, young marsh harriers playing around, sedge / reed warblers in front of reception, water rails on singleton / townend, yellow wagtails, around 14 little egrets, flocks of tree sparrows and goldfinches.