Early morning fog brough the year's first Green Sandpiper, with a vocal bird circling the Crocus Compound and twice dropping briefly on the Main Pond before flying towards the estuary. The remaining Little Stint and the returning Curlew Sandpiper were the second and third scarcest waders of the day.
Estuary counts over high tide included 827 Oystercatcher, 408 Black-headed and 21 Mediterranean Gull, 203 Redshank, 178 Dunlin, 150 Ringed Plover, 40 Turnstone, 33 Whimbrel, 18 Sanderling, 16 Common and an Arctic Tern, 11 Black and four Bar-tailed Godwit, 11 Greenshank, six Eider, a Snipe and a Knot.
Elsewhere 79 Sandwich Tern left the estuary after dawn with three Great Crested Grebe and a Common Scoter offshore; nine Sand and two House Martin were overhead and three Wheatear, two Whitethroat, two Sedge and two Willow Warbler, a Garden Warbler a Yellow Wagtail and the Treecreeper on site.
Year list addition:
160. Green Sandpiper
Other Wildlife: Once the fog cleared insects were active with two Southern Hawker and a Comma along with Silver Y, Heather Colletes, Hornet Plumehorn, White-lipped Digger Wasp Lindenius albilabris and the tachinid Ectophasia crassipennis amongst various taxa on the wing.
Strawberry Clover - Kevin Rylands 
Dark Fleabane Neb Apodia bifractella - Kevin Rylands
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