Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings September 2018 Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. The flocks of arctic migrants are growing and so are the number of sightings of the more rare birds. With our project coming up this summer

Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 110 Bar-tailed Godwit 17 Red Knot 3 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Northern Shoveler 1 Pacific Golden Plover 1 Eastern Curlew 1 Whimbrel NZ Species 2700

Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 110 Bar-tailed Godwit 17 Red Knot 3 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Northern Shoveler 1 Pacific Golden Plover 2 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Eastern Curlew 1 Whimbrel NZ Species 2700

The census on the 24th June 2018 revealed we have 2,700 Wrybill here on the shellbank and another 900 in the Firth of Thames. That’s over 65% of the estimated Wrybill population. Sighting of 2 male Northern Shovellers inside the

During May we welcomed the ducks and swans to the Stilt Pond which seem to take shelter here over the Duck shooting season. The highlights and crowd-pleasers are the continued sightings of a black-tailed godwit and the northern shoveler though,

Best birdwatching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 300 Bar-tailed Godwit 30 Red Knot 12 Pacific Golden Plover 12 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 2 Red-necked Stint NZ Species 2000 South Island Pied Oystercatcher 2000 Wrybill 590 Black-billed Gulls

Best birdwatching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 7100 Bar-tailed Godwit 1870 Red Knot 129 Pacific Golden Plover 14 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 13 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Red-necked Stint 1 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Eastern Curlew

During the combination of storm and king tide on the 5th of January we lost approx. half the Black-billed gull chicks and all of the White-fronted tern chicks and nests. Unfortunately the adult Terns have still not returned to the

Best birdwatching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 7100 Bar-tailed Godwit 1870 Red Knot 129 Pacific Golden Plover 13 Turnstone 9 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 2 Red-necked Stint 1 Curlew Sandpiper Arctic Skua NZ Species 740 South Island

Best birdwatching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 7100 Bar-tailed Godwit 70 Juvenile Godwit 1643 Red Knot 91 Pacific Golden Plover 8 Turnstone 5 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 2 Red-necked Stint 1 Marsh Sandpiper 1 Curlew Sandpiper Arctic