Wildfowl and Wader Counts for 2006
| Species |
Jan 15 |
Feb 12 |
Mar 19 |
April 9 |
May 14 |
June 11 |
July 16 |
Aug 13 |
Sept 16 |
Oct 8 |
Nov 19 |
Dec 17 |
| Red-Throated Diver |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
| Little Grebe |
9 |
6 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
10 |
7 |
2 |
| Great Crested Grebe |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cormorant |
24 |
1 |
|
8 |
5 |
19 |
2 |
15 |
24 |
17 |
4 |
2 |
| Little Egret |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Grey Heron |
7 |
5 |
|
|
2 |
5 |
39 |
5 |
55 |
27 |
15 |
9 |
| Mute Swan |
126 |
145 |
45 |
102 |
129 |
158 |
193 |
237 |
256 |
100 |
92 |
128 |
| Whooper Swan |
95 |
181 |
94 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
5 |
108 |
113 |
| Black Swan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pinkfooted Goose (see below) |
380 |
2386 |
1760 |
210 |
130 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
8 |
1210 |
|
|
| Greylag Goose |
|
|
116 |
5 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
104 |
4 |
| Canada Goose |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Barnacle Goose |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
2 |
| Brent Goose |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
| Shelduck |
1136 |
727 |
385 |
442 |
246 |
544 |
294 |
206 |
418 |
515 |
1106 |
1011 |
| Wigeon |
3559 |
3189 |
2438 |
295 |
9 |
10 |
5 |
270 |
1710 |
1742 |
3001 |
3047 |
| Gadwall |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
| American Wigeon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Teal |
92 |
139 |
70 |
33 |
|
|
2 |
6 |
43 |
22 |
65 |
191 |
| Mallard |
257 |
320 |
45 |
31 |
20 |
38 |
49 |
408 |
295 |
193 |
|
197 |
| Pintail |
123 |
178 |
36 |
27 |
2 |
|
|
|
12 |
3 |
|
186 |
| Shoveler |
21 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
57 |
| Pochard |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tufted Duck |
|
|
|
|
|
12 |
3 |
|
24 |
22 |
|
|
| Scaup |
35 |
37 |
|
12 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
28 |
| Eider |
|
4322 |
733 |
414 |
1081 |
1255 |
1669 |
1582 |
1144 |
1848 |
1958 |
2584 |
| Goldeneye |
39 |
28 |
9 |
23 |
3 |
8 |
22 |
66 |
28 |
2 |
8 |
23 |
| Red Breasted Merganser |
12 |
27 |
29 |
19 |
20 |
30 |
33 |
81 |
35 |
8 |
12 |
3 |
| Goosander |
|
|
|
|
5 |
30 |
15 |
13 |
|
|
|
|
| Water Rail |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Coot |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Moorhen |
|
|
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Oystercatcher |
1517 |
2127 |
681 |
408 |
239 |
193 |
845 |
2000 |
1465 |
1303 |
956 |
1619 |
| Ringed Plover |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
16 |
47 |
|
|
3 |
| Golden Plover |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
550 |
120 |
|
|
| Grey Plover |
34 |
47 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
8 |
| Lapwing |
650 |
706 |
9 |
3 |
22 |
41 |
205 |
168 |
2615 |
203 |
72 |
186 |
| Knot |
2875 |
3360 |
40 |
335 |
10 |
|
18 |
6 |
27 |
|
|
400 |
| Dunlin |
1650 |
2030 |
131 |
|
20 |
|
13 |
107 |
427 |
150 |
484 |
1092 |
| Ruff |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
| Snipe |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
| Black Tailed Godwit |
14 |
40 |
2 |
10 |
2 |
2 |
22 |
7 |
78 |
60 |
16 |
27 |
| Bar Tailed Godwit |
91 |
130 |
63 |
22 |
10 |
|
7 |
|
31 |
30 |
|
60 |
| Whimbrel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Curlew |
461 |
640 |
801 |
400 |
73 |
95 |
661 |
515 |
145 |
607 |
680 |
675 |
| Redshank |
568 |
644 |
861 |
667 |
13 |
3 |
308 |
1794 |
1529 |
700 |
698 |
662 |
| Greenshank |
|
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
14 |
19 |
|
|
|
| Green Sandpiper |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Common Sandpiper |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
14 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
| Turnstone |
23 |
39 |
2 |
40 |
|
|
|
|
51 |
31 |
15 |
64 |
| Black Headed Gull |
73 |
21 |
72 |
1 |
5 |
45 |
399 |
462 |
1067 |
120 |
25 |
7 |
| Common Gull |
81 |
35 |
43 |
|
6 |
29 |
100 |
17 |
87 |
41 |
|
8 |
| Lesser Black Backed Gull |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
| Herring Gull |
51 |
23 |
21 |
123 |
24 |
5 |
6 |
285 |
688 |
223 |
48 |
27 |
| Great Black Backed Gull |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
1 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
| Sandwich Tern |
|
|
|
|
11 |
6 |
8 |
|
13 |
|
|
|
| Common Tern |
|
|
|
|
12 |
14 |
37 |
22 |
|
|
|
|
| Arctic Tern |
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
21 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Little Tern |
|
|
|
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
The following are more accurate counts of pinkfeet done at dawn and dusk rather than the high-tide counts given above.
| Pink-footed Goose counts |
| 15/10/2006 |
13,021 |
| ~29/10/2006 |
25,000 |
| 12/11/2006 |
15,250 |
| 17/11/2006 |
5,554 |