Date Site Details
Tuesday 14 Oct Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir 07:30 to 15:00,
3 Shelduck 420 Shoveler 400 Gadwall 210 Wigeon 220 Mallard 380 Pintail (Mostly in Wig Bay) 700 Teal 4 Red-crested Pochard (Island Hide) 400 Pochard 420 Tufted Duck Scaup (Drake, Billets Screen) Goldeneye (Female, Island Hide) 4 Goosander (Fem types, Island Hide) 1600 Coot 80 Lapwing 130 Black-tailed Godwit (Mostly in Wig Bay) 5 Snipe Green Sandpiper (LBC) 3 Spotted Redshank (Wig Bay) 16 Ruff (Mostly in Wig Bay) 250 Black-headed Gull 2 Mediterranean Gull 15 Common Gull 25 Little Grebe Slavonian Grebe (Left of Island Hide, near the tern raft.) 100 Great Crested Grebe 800 Cormorant (Minimum) 5 Little Egret 12 Great White Egret 10 Grey Heron Sparrowhawk 2 Marsh Harrier Buzzard Kingfisher (LBC) Green Woodpecker Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Kestrel 10 Skylark 2 Cetti's Warbler 700 Starling (Minimum) 2 Redwing 2 Stonechat 3 Grey Wagtail 12 Meadow Pipit 5 Reed Bunting [Oliver Cottis]
Thursday 09 Oct Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir 13:55 to 16:30, with Jane & Toby Mapp
3 Shelduck 200 Pintail 60 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Snipe Green Sandpiper (Hide Bay) 15 Ruff Curlew Sandpiper (Wig Bay) Black Tern (juvenile briefly in Hide Bay) 6 Great White Egret Sparrowhawk 5 Buzzard 2 Kingfisher (LBC) 4 Kestrel 4 Chiffchaff 2 Cetti's Warbler 2 Stonechat Yellow Wagtail (flew over LBC) 4 Chaffinch Great Spotted Woodpecker [Ben Mapp]
Tuesday 07 Oct Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir 11:00 to 14:00, Dull
Bittern (In back reeds LBC West then flew deeper into the reeds) 2 Green Sandpiper (East LBC) 11 Great White Egret (LBC) 10 Little Grebe (LBC) 28 Ringed Plover (Wig Bay) 2 Little Stint (With Ringed Plovers) 28 Ruff (Wig Bay mixed plumages) 100 Black-tailed Godwit (Wig Bay) Grey Plover (Wig bay) Dunlin (Wig Bay) [Barbara Leport]
Monday 06 Oct Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir 11:00 to 13:40, Mild, sunny, not very windy. Water level at Hide Bay hide very low (dry)!
15 Great White Egret 6 Little Egret 2 Little Grebe 65 Egyptian Goose (Minimum) 120 Black-tailed Godwit (estimate. Mostly Hide Bay and Wigborough Bay.) 50 Lapwing (estimate) Common Gull (Very likely more - didn't look hard.) 3 Kestrel Marsh Harrier (Hide Bay hide) 2 Cetti's Warbler 5 Linnet 4 Long-tailed Tit [Simon Banks]
Sunday 21 Sep Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Reservoir 07:15 to 09:15, Northerly wind, cool but sunny. Walk from LDLH causeway to Wigborough bay.
189 Black-tailed Godwit 20 Ruff 13 Curlew Sandpiper Dunlin 2 Green Sandpiper 2 Greenshank 4 Common Tern (2 adults, 2 juveniles. ) 18 Spoonbill 11 Great White Egret Sparrowhawk (Juvenile male.) 2 Marsh Harrier (Different females. ) Red Kite [Ashley Gooding]