The wet weather, and mist later made the day very quite. I wanted to count the duck etc at Shawell lagoons and sand pit for the WeBs survey, Carl usual does this but he is away.
This afternoon, in the drizzle, the first stop was Shawell sandpit, here there was on 18 Teal and a single Moorhen. Next to the lagoons, very few gulls, but some of all the usual species including 35 Great black-backed Gulls. A small number of Mallard and Tuffted. Duck were present and 54 Lapwing were on the shore, two Snipe were feeding near the reeds. The Fox decided to have an amble over the shore area, most birds ignoring it unless it got too close for them.
Then some loud noise and commotion as about 40 Canada Geese flew in, these were quickly followed by a good number of Wigeon, these likely had been disturbed from another water somewhere locally, eventually I counted 185 Wigeon.
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