A busy high tide around The Bight with counts including 302 Curlew, 172 Dark and four Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 67 Shelduck, 40 Bar-tailed Godwit, 38 Ringed and 31 Grey Plover, 24 Knot, 21 Sanderling, a Pintail and a Whimbrel. These flocks attracted the attention of the immature female Peregrine.
Elsewhere a Snow Bunting flew along the beach, 37 Common Scoter and five Eider were offshore, a Kingfisher was at the Main Pond and the Cetti's Warbler, three Chiffchaff and a Coal Tit in the bushes.
Year list addition:
183. Snow Bunting
Ringing news: Another good return with 15 colour-ringed Dunlin recorded, 14 locally ringed and the Welsh bird, three headstarted Curlew, an Exe ringed Grey Plover and several Oystercatcher including a Welsh individual and five new birds for the winter.
One of these 9N was ringed on 4 February 2018 but last seen in October 2020. It was identified by reading the BTO metal ring, the colour-ring is heavily worn and this is no doubt the reason for the recorded 'absence'.
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