Seawatching from 1hr 45 minutes from first light saw the following heading, SW, 544 auk sp., 200 Gannet, 43 Kittiwake, seven Common Scoter, seven Red-throated and three Great Northern Diver, three Fulmar, three Red-breasted Merganser and the year's first Golden Plover flew in off the sea with a Turnstone.
The juvenile Spoonbill was again in the estuary with the Pale-bellied Brent Goose and a possible hybrid/intergrade Dark/Pale-belled Brent amongst the 311 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 241 Teal, 95 Shelduck, 50 Wigeon, two Eider, a pair of Red-breasted Merganser by the Wreck and an adult Mediterranean Gull and a grey Muscovy Duck in the saltmarsh.
The monthly WeBS count was on a neap tide so wader counts were much reduced with just 802 Dunlin, 136 Knot, 48 Grey and 16 Ringed Plover, 16 Curlew, six Bar-tailed Godwit and two Sanderling present.
Storm Isha, despite being centred northwest of Ireland, kept the site blown out with just two Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff found in the bushes, seven Shoveler (five ♂ two ♀) on the ponds and a ♀ Pheasant in Greenland Lake.
Year list additions:
96. Golden Plover
97. Pheasant
Other Wildlife: The Grey Squirrel was in the Entrance Bushes and a Field Vole was in Greenland Lake.
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