A low high tide this afternoon so set the ‘scope up to count between Know End and Far Arnside.
3 little egret,
9 wigeon
6 mallard
160 oystercatchers
4 lapwing
490 dunlin
275 redshank
62 curlew
3 b-h gull, 1 herring gull, 3 gbb gull.
Also 31 carrion crows on the sands, c50 shelduck and 2 cormorants beyond Far Arnside, and a mixed flock of c400 waders near Park Point and too distant to id.
