NORTHUMBERLAND

BERWICK: Cocklawburn had 246 Lapwings and 126 Curlew in coastal fields, plus seven migrant Blackbirds (3rd), and a drake Long-tailed Duck and 24 Purple Sandpipers (9th). Middle Ord Pond had 38 Teal (6th), 156 (10th) and 270 (13th), the highest total recorded here, then 140 (20th) when four Snipe were present. There were 340 Herring Gulls and four Buzzards worming in wet fields at Gainslaw (13th). Little Beach had 23 Sanderlings, eight Purple Sandpipers and 66 Turnstones (15th). Meadow Haven had five Common Scoters and two Long-tailed Ducks (15th). Cheswick Black Rocks had 32 Twite, three Red-throated Divers and two Guillemots (17th). A flock of c.360 mixed corvids flew south at dawn at Billylaw, Ord Moor (20th). Saltpan

Rocks had two Long-tailed Ducks and 32 Common Scoters (22nd). New Water Heugh had seven White-fronted Geese of the European (Russian) race (26th-30th), and there were three Tufted Ducks there (28th). Calot Shad had 27 Goldeneyes and five Red-breasted Mergansers (28th). There were two Guillemots at Spittal Bay (30th).

Malcolm Hutcheson, Berwick Wildlife Group