Wednesday 30 December 2020

Carlton Marsh

This cold and frosty morning 80% of the wetland was iced over. 15 Herring Gulls, 2 GBB Gulls, 2 Common Gull, 2 Greylag Geese and 2 Canada Geese. 3 Coal Tits and a Water Rail were around the feeder with c10 Blue Tit and about the same number of Great Tit. Also of note Great Spot Woodpecker, Goldcrest and c50 Redwing (Dave Smith).

This afternoon 20 Redpoll feeding on Birch seeds, 1 Siskin, 13 Long-tailed Tit and 3 Water Rail called.

There were 2 close sightings of Fox and a Mink swam across the main scrape (CG/Dave Standish).

A view over the main scrape (DM Smith)

The wader scrape (D.M. Smith)

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