Freshwater Causeway
Grid Reference: SZ348872
Recent sightings
| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14/04/24 | Reed Warbler | Freshwater Causeway | 2 | D Wooldridge |
| 19:52 | (south) in good song, first heard on 13th. others singing elsewhere. | |||
| 31/03/24 | Water Rail | Freshwater Causeway | 3 | D Wooldridge |
| 15:49 | calling, causewaysouth sect. | |||
| 25/03/24 | Mute Swan | Freshwater Causeway | 46 | C Dudley |
| 16:00 | ZKH female from Abbotsbury Swannery with white Darvic still here, also XY3384 male (orange Darvic U4T lost a few years ago). His mate was orange U4N but she hasn't been seen for a long time. No other ringed birds seen. . | |||
| 11/03/24 | Mute Swan | Freshwater Causeway | 1 | C Dudley |
| 16:00 | Steve Groves, the Abbotsbury Swanherd, says: It was hatched here at the Swannery last spring and was ringed on 21st September 2023. Its metal ring is AS01733. It was sexed as a female and weighed 10.2 kg. It is very unusual for an Abbotsbury hatched swan to travel that far, especially a female. They usually stay on The Fleet Lagoon or just wander to the nearby wetland reserves in Weymouth . We ring incoming swans with yellow rings, and they are prone to wander, in fact there is one that is being regularly reported on the Isle of Wight currently. (This is likely to be FPU recorded at Ryde Canoe Lake.) . | |||
| 20/03/24 | Chiffchaff | Freshwater Causeway | 3 | D Wooldridge |
| 18:26 | all in good song. | |||
| 14/03/24 | Mute Swan | Freshwater Causeway | C Dudley | |
| 17:00 | Two Polish adults with pinkish-grey legs and feet in amongst 35 other Mute Swans. | |||
| 14/03/24 | Turnstone | Freshwater Causeway | 2 | C Dudley |
| 12:00 | SZ347872. | |||
| 02/02/24 | Dunlin | Freshwater Causeway | 4 | C Dudley |
| 16:30 | Roosting on spit with Black-tailed Godwits and Lapwings. | |||
| 02/02/24 | Lapwing | Freshwater Causeway | 116 | C Dudley |
| 16:30 | Roosting on spit with Black-tailed Godwits and four Dunlins. | |||
| 02/02/24 | Black-tailed Godwit | Freshwater Causeway | 101 | C Dudley |
| 16:30 | Roosting and feeding on spit with Lapwings and four Dunlin. | |||