Early morning saw another large auk movement SW across the bay with 2502 clicked through in 1hr 20 mins, a small sample suggested another roughly even split. Also passing 108 Kittiwake, 56 Gannet, nine Red-throated and five Great Northern Diver, three Common Scoter, three Fulmar and a ♀ Red-breasted Merganser. The year's first Egyptian Goose was watched entering the estuary from Exmouth.
The single Avocet and Pale-bellied Brent Goose were in the estuary with counts of 177 Teal, 89 Shelduck, 57 Turnstone, 35 Wigeon and two ♀ Red-breasted Merganser.
Elsewhere nine Eider were offshore, an immature male replacing one of the females, five Shoveler were on the Main Pond with five Chiffchaff and two Goldcrest in the bushes.
Year list addition:
98. Egyptian Goose
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