Red Nab
1 adult Mediterranean Gull – already moulting out of summer plumage, with some white around the base of the bill
2 Whimbrel – with 33 Curlew
c.200 small waders (probably a mixture of Dunlin and Ringed Plover) on the shoreline off Ocean Edge on the early morning ebbing tide, but too distant for specific identification
Sunderland, Lune Estuary
45 Ringed Plover
14 Dunlin
1 summer plumage Sanderling – all on the small area of shoreline between the First and Second Terraces on the ebbing tide
54 Eider – along the eastern side of the estuary north of Crook Farm
Pete C
