The first Red-necked Grebe of the year was off the seawall mid afternoon before drifting south, also offshore 156 Common Scoter, five Pintail, a Great Northern and a Red-throated Diver. Overhead pigeons were again on the move with 14875 Wood Pigeon and 19 Stock Dove counted heading west with a couple of small groups of Dunlin in with them. Heading in the other direction there were 148 Chaffinch, 12 Skylark and single Mistle Thrush, Siskin, Redpoll and Brambling.
Elsewhere the Bonaparte's Gull was off Warren Point, with the first returning Goldeneye, 27 Ringed Plover, 19 Bar and two Black-tailed Godwit, two Greenshank and the Slavonian Grebe also in the estuary.
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