Late afternoon saw 22 Red-throated and five Great Northern Diver offshore along with 22 Great Crested Grebe, eight Common Scoter, the four Eider and four Shoveler.
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| Eider - Dean Hall |
Counts from the evening high tide included 400 Dunlin, 17 Grey Plover and a Bar-tailed Godwit, with 105 Redshank, 14 Teal, eight Greenshank, seven Red-breasted Merganser and a Sparrowhawk also in the estuary, the latter hunting Dunlin.
Elsewhere a pair of Shoveler were on the Main Pond with single Chiffchaff and Firecrest in the surrounding scrub.
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| Firecrest - Dean Hall |
Other Wildlife: The first Common Lizard of the year, an immature, was basking by the Visitor Centre with half a dozen Buff-tailed Bumblebee around the first flowering sallows.
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