Pre-work session between 0430 and 0620, highlights were:
2 Little Ringed Plovers have had 2 young!!! 3 Green Sandpipers* 1 Common Sandpiper* 1 Dunlin 1 Avocet with 3 juv 1 Oystercatcher 3 Blackbird 1 Oystercatcher 160 Greylag Geese 51 Black-headed Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Shelduck with 4 juv 57 Coot 1 Turtle Dove (still!) 8 Common Tern with 37 yg/juv 7 Mute Swan 2 Long-tailed Tit 1 Little Grebe 2 Cormorant 3 Lapwing 2 Reed Warbler 1 Blackcap 1 Great Tit 2 Green Woodpecker 1 Song Thrush 1 Wren 78 Mallard 24 Tufted Duck 1 Pochard with 3 yg 1 Great Crested Grebe
On my way to the gravel pit, 2 Barn Owls before bridge on Wharf Lane, Coningsby - one might be a juv, but it was still dark and passing at 30mph it was difficult!
Discovered post initial posting one of the Green Sands was actually a Common - sorry!
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