Early morning saw 13 Red-throated and seven Great Northern Diver offshore along with 19 Great Crested Grebe, three Red-breasted Merganser, three Eider and a Common Scoter.
Elsewhere the Coal Tit, seven Siskin and single Chiffchaff and Goldcrest were in the bushes, 11 Teal and five Shoveler were at the Main Pond, three Jackdaw and single Lesser Redpoll and Rook were overhead.
There was no sign of the Green-winged Teal, with 94 Common Gull and a Avocet noted amongst the usual species in the estuary.
Ringing News: A total of 27 ringed Dunlin, included the German and Swedish ringed birds. Other recoveries included the Welsh ringed Knot and a metal ringed Shelduck from the Axe Estuary, last recorded here in November 2019.
Other Wildlife: A few larger fungi are still fruiting despite the weather with species such as Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare, Scurfy Twiglet Tubaria furfuracea and new for the Recording Area, Firerug Inkcap Coprinellus domesticus along with the hardier and longer lasting Blushing Bracket Daedaleopsis confragosa and Hairy Curtain Crust Stereum hirsutum.
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| Firerug Inkcap Coprinellus domesticus - Kevin Rylands |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust Stereum hirsutum - Kevin Rylands |
Smaller species included the stitchwort leaf spot Mycosphaerella isariphora, new for the Warren on the sites only Greater Stitchwort and Chaetosphaerella phaeostroma, a fungi that parasitises dead wood fungi.
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| Chaetosphaerella phaeostroma - Kevin Rylands |
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