Selected Bird Records March 2008
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| Slavonian grebe | singles summer plumaged bird offshore on 6th, 12th and 13th |
| Black necked grebe | summer plumaged bird reported offshore on the 29th. |
| Bittern | 2 birds present in the reedbed all month with booming recorded throughout. |
| Pink footed goose | 21 feeding on the grazing meadow on 1st, 13 roosting on the fresh marsh and 130 west on the 3rd. |
| White fronted goose | 1st winter on reedbed pool on 3rd |
| Barnacle goose | 1 flew in/off sea and SW over reserve on 16th |
| Dark bellied brent goose | a reduction of numbers throughout the month with peaks of 197 on 7th falling to 110 on the 27th |
| Black brant | adult still present with brent flock until the 10th |
| Wigeon | pair still present on 24th |
| Teal | peaks of 53 and 52 on the 6th and 7th |
| Pintail | 7 still present on fresh marsh on 7th |
| Red crested pochard | pair on fresh marsh 23rd-25th with the drake only29th and 30th |
| Tufted duck | 17 on the 7th was a good reserve record |
| Eider | 14 offshore on 10th |
| Common scoter | following a poor winter, numbers increased towards the month end with 400 on the 28th and 1000 on the 30th |
| Velvet scoter | 13 west on 22nd |
| Red breasted merganser | 30 offshore on 10th |
| Red Kite | 1 west over reserve @ 10:20 on the 2nd |
| Marsh harrier | 3 pairs nesting in the reedbed |
| Hen harrier | ringtail (probable immature male) present daily over the reedbed with marsh harriers until the 21st. Brief ‘skydancing’ was noted on the 9th |
| Common buzzard | singles over on 6th, 8th, 11th, 20th, 23rd and 27th with 2’s on 4th and 9th |
| Osprey | 1 west over reserve @ 14:05 on the 20th with it or another SE @ 15:15 the next day. |
| Merlin | singles on the 4th, 8th, 14th and 30th |
| Peregrine | 2 on the 9th |
| Common crane | 5 west @ 11:55 on the 2nd |
| Avocet | peaks of 132 on the 22nd and 118 on the 6th |
| Little ringed plover | singles on the 11th and 24th |
| Sanderling | 143 roosting at Thornham Point on the 7th |
| Purple sandpiper | single bird roosting on the beach ruin on the 19th and 20th |
| Woodcock | 2 birds on the brackish marsh on 3rd |
| Spotted redshank | peak of 20 on the fresh marsh on the 6th |
| Greenshank | singles on the 11th, 16th and 26th -29th. |
| Turnstone | 161 at high tide on the 7th |
| Great skua | 1 offshore on 20th |
| Herring gull | 627 on the 7th |
| Sandwich tern | 1st of the year of 2 on the 13th |
| Common tern | 1st birds of the year on the 18th |
| Arctic tern | single on 30th |
| Little tern | 6 on the 26th with 15 present offshore on the 28th |
| Black tern | 1 on the 30th |
| Wood pidgeon | 207 west in 2hrs on the 3rd, 141 west in 2hrs on the 25th |
| Turtle dove | 3 west on the 24th, 2 on the Meadow Trail on the 23rd and a singing male by the Fen Hide 25th – 28th |
| Cuckoo | 1st of the year on the 23rd |
| Tawny owl | 1 calling in willow scrub near Fen Hide on the 14th |
| Swift | 1st record of the year on the 23rd with 20 on the 28th |
| Sand martin | 100 west on the 4th |
| House martin | 1st of the year on the 9th |
| Tree pipit | 2 west on the 22nd, single west on 24th |
| Yellow wagtail | 1st record of the year on the 4th |
| Grey wagtail | 1 in carpark on the 2nd and 4th |
| Stonechat | a fall on the 9th produced 24 birds around the reserve |
| Wheatear | 1 on the 20th was over a month since 1st record of the year and was the start of a small passage with 5 on the 25th |
| Ring ouzel | west on the 27th |
| Fieldfare | 10 late birds over the reserve on the 11th |
| Blackcap | singles on 17th and 30th. |
| Cetti's warbler | 7 singing males recorded in the reedbed |
| Firecrest | 2 in the carpark area until 10th |
| Coal tit | single on 4th |
| Tree sparrow | single bird in the carpark on the 11th |
| Brambling | peak of 10 birds around the feeders on the 6th with the last bird recorded on the 25th |
| Lesser redpoll | 14 on the 11th |
| Bullfinch | single female on 26th |
| Yellowhammer | single on 11th |
| Corn bunting | 1 west on 4th |
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