The first nine Wigeon of the autumn were in the estuary with 50 freshly arrived Teal on the morning tide. Also in the estuary corner a Spotted Redshank, 288 Redshank, 13 Greenshank and a Snipe with 192 Curlew, 13 Bar and two Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Mediterranean Gull and seven Whimbrel in the Railway Saltmarsh.
Around The Bight, 956 Oystercatcher, 198 Ringed Plover, 163 Dunlin, 24 Sanderling, 22 Sandwich Tern, 16 Knot, 11 Turnstone, the six Eider, four Pale-bellied Brent Geese, two Shelduck and a juvenile Curlew Sandpiper.
Migrants included four Wheatear, two Whitethroat, two Yellow Wagtail and a Garden Warbler, with the Wryneck making a fleeting appearance on the north side of Greenland Lake, where it was last seen on Thursday evening.
Elsewhere 11 Common Scoter were offshore, 21 Teal flew SW before dawn, with three Balearic Shearwater and six 1cy Mediterranean Gull SW early evening.
Other Wildlife: Single Red Admiral, Silver Y and Rush Veneer were also migrants with other moths including Straw Dot, Snout and Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer Agriphila geniculea.
Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer Agriphila geniculea - Alan Keatley
Also recorded the wolf spider Actosa leopardus on the path by the viewing platform, a Grey Squirrel was on the Golf Course and a Bright Four-spined Legionnaire Chorisops nagatomii in the Entrance Bushes.
Actosa leopardus - Alan Keatley 
Bright Four-spined Legionnaire Chorisops nagatomii - Alan Keatley
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