Counts from the estuary at high tide included 957 Wigeon, 367 Dark and five Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 306 Curlew, 270 Redshank, 251 Teal, 240 Dunlin, 83 Great Black-backed, 19 Common and a Mediterranean Gull, 76 Turnstone, 30 Bar-tailed Godwit, 15 Ringed and 10 Grey Plover, eight Sanderling, seven Greenshank and single Kingfisher, Knot, Pintail, Shoveler and Whimbrel.
Elsewhere five immature Eider and two Great Northern Diver, one in summer plumage, were offshore, 203 Carrion Crow and three Jackdaw were on the mudflats preroost and five Chiffchaff, three Bullfinch, two Goldcrest and a Coal Tit.
Ringing News: Ahead of a new cannon-netting session tomorrow, ring reading was productive including five Curlew, three from the Exe and headstarted birds from Dorset and Suffolk, three Exe ringed Dunlin back for another winter and two regular Great Black-backed Gull from Looe, Cornwall and Portland, Dorset.
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