Wader counts from the high tide included 800 Dunlin, 125 Grey and 20 Ringed Plover, 105 Curlew, 68 Snipe, 42 Knot, 39 Redshank, 27 Bar-tailed Godwit, 20 Turnstone, five Sanderling, three Greenshank and two Jack Snipe, the latter pushed from the saltmarsh by rising waters.
Also in the estuary 157 Black-headed and 14 Common Gull, spring passage of the latter has either peaked or been delayed, and 104 Dark-bellied Brent Geese.
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