Sunday 16th June

During a brief evening visit for the high tide, counts from the estuary and in The Bight were 81 Curlew, six Canada Goose (plus four surviving goslings), five each of Mute Swan, Black-headed Gull and Sandwich Tern, four Cormorant, three Little Egret, three Dunlin, two Shelduck, two Grey Heron, and single Grey Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit. No Oystercatcher, no Ringed Plover and no Great Black-backed Gull; what can only be described as a mid-summer lull.