Large numbers of waders around The Bight on the large high tide including a winter peak of 115 Knot, alongside an estimated 1,400 Dunlin, 101 Bar-tailed Godwit, 96 Grey Plover, 32 Shelduck and a Great Northern Diver.
Elsewhere three Shoveler, two Little Grebe and a Snipe were at the Main Pond and an adult Mediterranean Gull offshore.
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| Snipe - Jim Summers |
Ringing News: A near-record total of 71 colour-ringed Dunlin were noted today, including two new birds both ringed on the Exe, 92 of the 102 birds ringed this winter have now been resighted. Although the flock was not counted, the ratio between ringed and unringed birds allowed for an estimate.
One of today's birds was the German ringed individual, colour-ringed in Jan, with Polish and Welsh ringed birds still here for at least their third winter.
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