Durham Bird Club's Castle Lake Nature Reserve

Saturday, 23 August 2014

Saturday 23rd August 2014

Another excellent selection this afternoon with eleven species of wader seen;

A1 Flashes - 9 summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwit (later eight made a brief excursion to Castle Lake before flying off back towards the flashes), 3 Ruff, 2 Snipe, 100 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper and an overflying Common Buzzard.

Castle Lake - 2 Wigeon, 5 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 1 adult Great Crested Grebe, 4 Cormorant, 3 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 juvenile Little Ringed Plover, 400 Lapwing, 2 Ruff, 10 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 64 Curlew, 2 Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 20 Common Gull and a Kingfisher.

Winter visitors are returning slowly including Wigeon and...
...Curlew.

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