- 21/05/2020
- Nature Notes
The wetland bird survey for May 2020 provides a snap shot of birdlife across Elmley NNR on Monday 11th May - a hot windy day made counting dificult over the high tide.
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Many of the birds counted this month are attempting to breed on the fresh water marshes and will be covered in bird bird surveys later in the summer.
Please note the Reserve will not reopen before 4th July for visits.
| Species | Elmley | Spitend | Total |
| Avocet | 8 | 57 | 65 |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | 0 | ||
| Bittern | 0 | ||
| Black-headed Gull | 425 | 375 | 800 |
| Black-tailed Godwit | 1 | 1 | |
| Brent Goose (Dark-bellied - bernicla) | 14 | 14 | |
| Canada Goose | 27 | 17 | 44 |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 1 | |
| Common Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | |
| Common Tern | 4 | 4 | |
| Coot | 140 | 97 | 237 |
| Cormorant | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Curlew | 7 | 7 | |
| Dunlin | 0 | ||
| Eider | 0 | ||
| Gadwall | 3 | 3 | |
| Great Crested Grebe | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Grey Heron | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Grey Plover | 7 | 7 | |
| Greylag Goose | 39 | 31 | 70 |
| Herring Gull | 9 | 37 | 46 |
| Lapwing | 537 | 146 | 683 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| Little Egret | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Little Grebe | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| Little Tern | 0 | ||
| Mallard | 182 | 162 | 344 |
| Mediterranean Gull | 12 | 33 | 45 |
| Moorhen | 28 | 19 | 47 |
| Mute Swan | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| Oystercatcher | 98 | 213 | 311 |
| Pochard | 35 | 40 | 75 |
| Redshank | 97 | 248 | 345 |
| Ringed Plover | 0 | ||
| Sandwich Tern | 0 | ||
| Shelduck | 89 | 76 | 165 |
| Shoveler | 36 | 57 | 93 |
| Teal | 0 | ||
| Tufted Duck | 23 | 44 | 67 |
| Turnstone | 0 | ||
| Water Rail | 0 | ||
| Whimbrel | 0 | ||
| Grand Total | 1845 | 1726 | 3571 |
