The first Little Stint of the year was a new arrival, feeding on the mudflats behind the Golf Course with 55 Dunlin and 18 Ringed Plover. Also in the estuary, on the low high tide, were 14 Turnstone, 10 Whimbrel, four Curlew and just two Oystercatcher.
Elsewhere a Hobby flew in off the sea late afternoon, as did two Whimbrel, a 2CY male Kestrel and a Little Egret with five Swift and a Buzzard overhead. Offshore there were 18 Black-headed Gull, 10 Manx Shearwater, two Sandwich Tern, a Red-throated Diver and the female Eider.
Year List addition:
144. Little Stint
144. Little Stint
Other Wildlife: A Water Vole was at the Main Pond and three Alexanders Straw Aethes deaurana were around the car park.
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