Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The Avocets are back. 14.03.22

Monday 13.03.22 was the first day of my 2022 trips Rye Harbour to survey bumblebees as part of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust's Shorthaired Bumblebee Reintroduction Project for 2022 (we survey from March to October), After surveying I spent from 2.45-5.15 walking around the reserve bird watching.

This is what I saw: Black-Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Great Black-Backed Gulls, Cormorants, Oystercatchers, Avocets, Golden Plovers, Ruffs, Redshank, Black-Tailed Godwits, Little Egrets, Grey Heron, Teal, Gadwall, Wigeon, Mallards, Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Shovelers, Shelducks, Little Grebes, Coots,

Skylarks, Starlings, Blackbirds, Carrion Crows, Magpies, Pied Wagtail

Oystercatcher

Teal

Oystercatcher

Oystercatchers - and Golden Plovers behind

Black-Tailed Godwit

Skylarks

Oystercatchers and Golden Plovers

Little Grebe

Cormorants

Female Ruff

Pied Wagtail

2nd winter Great Black-Backed Gull jevenile

Avocets

Shiveloe

Wigeon

Curlew

Fairlight Cliff

Starlings

Mallards

Male Tufted Ducks

Castle Water

Canada Geese

Female Teal

Camber Castle

Cormorants on Castle Water

Coot

Grey Heron