WeBS

Poor visibility and disturbance hampered the WeBS effort this past weekend, with numbers of waders in particular thought to be under-estimated. Notebook totals included 340 Oystercatchers, 80 Curlew, 60 Redshanks, 37 Dunlin, 17 Lapwings, nine Ringed Plovers, four Common Sandpipers, three Bar-tailed Godwits, two Greenshanks, 119 Canada Geese, 47 Shelducks, 25 Red-breasted Mergansers, 19 Mute Swans, eight Teal, five Little Grebes and a Kingfisher.