Tuesday 13th October

Another busy high tide with a juvenile Osprey and four immature Spoonbill in The Bight, the 3CY Caspian Gull on Finger Point and, late morning, a juvenile Marsh Harrier over Warren Point.

The usual suspects were present in the estuary with counts including 860 Wigeon, 320 Redshank, 80 Dark and a Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 34 Knot, 26 Turnstone, 19 Greenshank, nine Grey Plover, four Black-tailed Godwit, two Sandwich Tern and a Whimbrel.

Elsewhere two Common Scoter were off the seawall, with nine Chiffchaff, three Goldcrest and a Blackcap in the bushes.