The highlight was a juvenile/first winter Caspian Gull on Finger Point with 23 Great Black-backed Gull. The 11th site record but the fourth this year and the earliest ever record.
Also in the estuary the Spotted Redshank, 365 Curlew, 350 Redshank, 245 Ringed Plover, 111 Dunlin, 28 Sandwich Tern, 23 Sanderling, 19 Bar and four Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Wigeon, five Greenshank, two Knot, two Whimbrel, a Shelduck and an adult male Osprey.
Elsewhere a Balearic Shearwater flew south offshore with 78 Gannet, three Mediterranean Gull and an Arctic Skua, a Common Sandpiper was on the sea wall, the first three Tree Pipit of the year finally flew over, along with 70 Swallow, 50 House and a Sand Martin, four Meadow Pipit, two Grey Wagtail and two Great Spotted Woodpecker. Grounded migrants included a Reed Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, four Blackcap and single Wheatear and White Wagtail.
Wildlife News: Sea Daffodil is flowering on Warren Point, the recent Mediterranean weather clearly to its benefit.
Today's weather was less suitable and reduced the numbers of insects on the wing although Plain-faced Dronefly Eristalis arbustorum and Common Twist-tail Sphaerophoria scripta were noted.
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