Our planned visit to Marshside and Mere Sands Woods, for a higher than normal tide, was called off due to expected poor weather. Instead we rescheduled to Neumann’s Flash where we were supposed to go to in February. In the end, the weather wasn’t too bad and we largely stayed dry. We parked in the lay-by and turned right down the path that leads to the eastern side of Neumann’s Flash. From the hide we saw a few Pintail, Shovelers, Gadwall and Shelduck and larger numbers of Canada Geese, Mute Swans and Black-headed Gulls but by far the biggest presence was Teal.<\/p>\n
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We walked around the path and westward towards Haydn’s Pool where there were similar birds. We continued through the woodland where we had very good views of Kestrel and Buzzard and we also had a large flock of Greenfinches, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Mistle Thrush, a pair of Bullfinches and a single Redwing. We also watched a large flock of Lapwings wheeling about in the sky.<\/p>\n
We walked back around the western side of Neumann’s Flash where we saw the same birds from a slightly better angle before returning to our starting point. Although we didn’t see anything particularly surprising some of the views were particularly good so we ended up feeling that we had had a good morning of birding anyway.<\/p>\n
| Species<\/th>\n | Count<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n <\/p>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mute Swan<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canada Goose<\/td>\n | 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shelduck<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gadwall<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teal<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pintail<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shoveler<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pochard<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tufted Duck<\/td>\n | 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coot<\/td>\n | 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black-headed Gull<\/td>\n | 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Bird Sightings : Neumann’s Flash Environs<\/h4>\n
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