- 28/02/2020
- Nature Notes
A snapshot of the water birds on and around the Swale this month. The count is lower than expected as it was delayed for the two large storms over the highest tides of the month.
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| Shellness | Swale fresh | Harty | Capel | Spitend | Elmley | 2020 | |
| Mute Swan | 24 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 45 | ||
| Great-crested Grebe | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Little Grebe | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Coot | 80 | 1 | 96 | 490 | 667 | ||
| Moorhen | 13 | 13 | |||||
| Water rail | 0 | ||||||
| Grey Heron | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | ||
| Little Egret | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| Bittern | 0 | ||||||
| Spoonbill | 0 | ||||||
| Great White Heron | 0 | ||||||
| Cattle Egret | 0 | ||||||
| Cormorant | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||
| Pale-bellied Brent | 1 | ||||||
| Brent Goose | 230 | 260 | 50 | 1330 | 81 | 1951 | |
| Greylag Goose | 220 | 120 | 60 | 28 | 428 | ||
| Canada Goose | 6 | 65 | 43 | 114 | |||
| Pink-footed Goose | 0 | ||||||
| Tundra Bean Goose | 0 | ||||||
| White-fronted Goose | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Shelduck | 60 | 26 | 4 | 111 | 300 | 501 | |
| Mallard | 70 | 177 | 623 | 532 | 1402 | ||
| Teal | 20 | 2 | 42 | 311 | 60 | 435 | |
| Pintail | 6 | 100 | 106 | ||||
| Gadwall | 36 | 12 | 48 | ||||
| Garganey | 0 | ||||||
| Shoveller | 16 | 76 | 46 | 138 | |||
| Tufted Duck | 46 | 46 | |||||
| Pochard | 27 | 27 | |||||
| Wigeon | 1536 | 7460 | 8996 | ||||
| Avocet | 0 | ||||||
| Oystercatcher | 2800 | 2 | 86 | 17 | 2905 | ||
| Curlew | 270 | 260 | 1 | 156 | 14 | 701 | |
| Whimbrel | 0 | ||||||
| Bar-tailed Godwit | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Black-tailed Godwit | 1 | 366 | 367 | ||||
| Common Snipe | 0 | ||||||
| Grey Plover | 30 | 1 | 55 | 1 | 87 | ||
| Golden Plover | 0 | ||||||
| Ringed Plover | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Lapwing | 100 | 4 | 12 | 2103 | 1288 | 3507 | |
| Greenshank | 0 | ||||||
| Redshank | 50 | 9 | 32 | 22 | 113 | ||
| Green Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Wood Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Common Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Knot | 200 | 51 | 1400 | 1651 | |||
| Dunlin | 15 | 10 | 340 | 365 | |||
| Curlew Sandpiper | 0 | ||||||
| Ruff | 0 | ||||||
| Little Stint | 0 | ||||||
| Turnstone | 45 | 15 | 5 | 65 | |||
| Eider | 0 | ||||||
| Spot Shank | 0 | ||||||
| Sanderling | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Great Northern Diver | 0 | ||||||
| Purple Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 3669 | 1159 | 107 | 359 | 7072 | 12375 | 24740 |
