At least 200 Sandwich Tern remain in the estuary with other counts including 99 Ringed Plover, 40 Dunlin, 26 Sanderling, two Common Tern and two Grey Plover.
In the bushes four Willow Warbler were certainly migrants but four Blackcap and a Reed Warbler could well have been fledged on site.
Ringing News: Amongst the marked Sandwich Tern were several more juveniles from Hampshire colonies and a bird ringed as a chick in the Netherlands in May 1996 and recorded here in 2015, 2019-, 2020 and 2021. At over 30 years old, this bird is just a few months from being the oldest recorded Sandwich Tern in the UK.
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