Water levels are generally pretty high but the marsh at the back of Fishtail is looking cracking. Waders are returning and on Fishtail Lagoon there were 125 Black-tailed Godwit. Also here were 30 Dunlin, six Snipe, three Common Sandpiper and six Little Ringed Plover. On the intertidal was a single Sanderling, 350 Dunlin, 30 Turnstone, four Whimbrel, 12 Grey Plover, 10 Common Tern and six Sandwich Tern.
Black-tailed Godwit - Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit - Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit - Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington Marsh
Black-headed Gull (juvenile), apparently they have had a very good breeding season at Keyhaven this year which is good to hear since many years the nests get flooded out during Spring Tides - Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington Marsh
Common Gull, my first of the 'winter' - Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington Marsh
Eider, an eclipse male off Butts Lagoon - Pennington Marsh
On 4th August I paid another brief visit to Pennington Marshes and walked from the end of Lower Pennington Lane out past Fishtail Lagoon to the seawall, around Butts Lagoon and back past Shoveler Pools. The tide was on the rise and there were fewer birds on the pools with most birds being on the remaining intertidal. Dunlin numbers were put to around 600 while there were at least 50 Turnstone, 20 Grey Plover, three Bar-tailed Godwit, 30 Sandwich Tern and 20 Common Tern. My first Wigeon and Pintail of the 'winter' were on Fishtail Lagoon. On Shoveler Pools there were three Little Ringed Plover, a Green Sandpiper and a Wood Sandpiper. Again, I only had my digiscoping kit so my images are a bit shite.
Wood Sandpiper - Shoveler Pools, Pennington Marsh
Green Sandpiper - Shoveler Pools, Pennington Marsh
Little Ringed Plover - Shoveler Pools, Pennington Marsh
