4th August: July's peak bird counts

Selected peak counts of birds on Lindisfarne NNR during July:

Little egret 21
Shelduck 234
Tufted duck 49
Eider 812
Common scoter 200
Red-breasted merganser 24
Oystercatcher 304
Ringed plover 54
Lapwing 61
Bar-tailed godwit 86
Curlew 931
Redshank 157
Sandwich tern 174
Arctic tern 51

These counts are recorded during the monthly Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) and also from ad-hoc counts.