The high tide saw near record numbers of Black-tailed Godwit were 950 roosting in the Railway Saltmarsh with a single Avocet. Around The Bight the usual waders including 1100 Dunlin, 78 Grey Plover, 77 Bar-tailed Godwit, 35 Knot, 15 Turnstone and a Sanderling.
Also in the estuary 176 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 111 Shelduck, eight Red-breasted Merganser and single Mediterranean Gull and a Kingfisher.
Elsewhere surprisingly quiet in the bushes, with 10 Long-tailed Tit, two Chiffchaff and two Goldcrest, 28 Meadow Pipit in Greenland Lake and offshore a Great Northern Diver, but no Velvets amongst the twenty Common Scoter.
Other Wildlife: In the winter sunshine a queen German Wasp and a tiny ribwort plantain feeding weevil Trichosirocalus troglodytes.
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| German Wasp - Alan Keatley |
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| Trichosirocalus troglodytes - Alan Keatley |
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