On site 10.00 – 14.00. Selected sightings.
6 red-throated diver at 11.10, 3 in Summer plumage
3 great crested grebe
2 great white egret
pink-footed geese: 10.55, 15 over to N; 11.30, 40 over to W; 12.45, distant flock up from salt marsh and resettled nearer Cotestones enabling count of c640.
3 wigeon, 2 pintail, 175 eider, 5 rb merganser, pair goosander
kestrel
mid-tide wader counts (11.35 – 11.45): 540 oystercatcher, 275 curlew, 2 bar-tailed godwit.
4 golden plover over
flock of 42 ringed plover and 3 dunlin moved from Keer to salt marsh pools on tide
sand martins off sea in dribs and drabs, 1 swallow
2 wheatears, skylarks, meadow pipits, linnets
grey seal.