Seawatching early morning saw eight Great Northern Diver head south along with two Little, two Common and three Sandwich Tern, 63 Kittiwake, 48 Common Scoter and a first summer Mediterranean Gull. Over the high tide wader counts included 233 Oystercatcher, 104 Dunlin, 67 Ringed Plover, five Turnstone, four Grey Plover, a Whimbrel and a Knot. The continued highlight though were the flocks of Sanderling, with a site record 326 present today, the previous record of 300 was 60 years ago. Elsewhere a Spotted Flycatcher was in Dead Dolphin Wood, the Slavonian Grebe was off Cockwood and a distinctly unseasonal drake Wigeon was in Shutterton Creek.
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