Flat calm conditions offshore revealed an evening roost of divers with small groups distantly spread across the horizon. A single Black-throated Diver was amongst 24 Great Northern and eight Red-throated Diver, with two probable Black-throated amongst five others too distant to identify. Also offshore 17 Sandwich Tern, six Great Crested Grebe and three Eider.
Counts from estuary over the evening high tide included 25 Bar-tailed Godwit, eight Dunlin, five Grey Plover, five Sanderling, three Whimbrel, three Turnstone and single Greenshank, Knot and Redshank.
The roosting waders were frequently disturbed by a lone Carrion Crow trying to predate Oystercatcher, both on the ground and trying to knock them out of the air in flight.
Elsewhere the first Sedge and Reed Warbler of the year were in the Buffer Zone and at the Main Pond respectively, five Wheatear were on site, a Magpie was killed in a territorial fight on the Golf Course and the resident pair of Great Black-backed Gull were enjoying a dead Rabbit in the car park, a victim of disease rather than predation.
Year list additions:
125. Sedge Warbler
124. Reed Warbler
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