Lots of activity in the estuary over the high tide with minimum counts of 130 Mediterranean Gull and 110 Sandwich Tern, including 16 juveniles, gathering around The Bight. A sample count of Mediterranean Gull included 73 adults, seven 3CY, nine 2CY, and three juveniles.
Other counts included 220 Curlew, 130 Oystercatcher, 32 Dunlin, six Greenshank, six Sanderling, five Common Sandpiper, three Bar-tailed Godwit, three Common Tern, three Grey Plover, a Ringed Plover and a Turnstone.
Elsewhere the Coot was still at the Main Pond, along with a Kingfisher and the moulting Eider, now flightless, was on the beach.
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| Eider - Kevin Rylands |
Ringing News: News back from a Sandwich Tern read on Friday confirms in was ringed, as a 2CY, on passage at Allit Sandpans on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, just the second record of an Israeli ringed Sandwich Tern in the UK.
More regular Sandwich Tern fare today saw several Hampshire ringed birds, a new bird from Cemlyn, Anglesey and an Ynyslas, Wales ringed bird back for a ninth successive autumn, since being ringed as a juvenile in August 2018.
Other Wildlife: Common Fiddleneck Amsinckia micrantha was discovered on the Golf Course, the first site record since 1959. Native to western North America, this remains a very rare casual in Devon.
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| Common Fiddleneck Amsinckia micrantha - Kevin Rylands |
A bull Grey Seal was in the estuary.
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