Sunday 24th November

Counts from the estuary included 1510 Oystercatcher, 470 Dunlin, 420 Dark and a Pale-bellied Brent, 131 Knot, 116 Bar-tailed Godwit, 113 Grey Plover, 53 Snipe, feeding out on the mud with other waders, 22 Turnstone and the Slavonian Grebe. Elsewhere three Red-throated and a Great Northern Diver and a female Eider were offshore and a Firecrest remained in the Entrance Bushes with five Goldcrest and just a single Chiffchaff.