Late afternoon saw 22 Red-throated and five Great Northern Diver offshore along with 22 Great Crested Grebe, eight Common Scoter and four Shoveler.
Counts from the evening high tide included 400 Dunlin, 17 Grey Plover and a Bar-tailed Godwit, with 105 Redshank, 14 Teal, eight Greenshank, seven Red-breasted Merganser and a Sparrowhawk also in the estuary, the latter hunting Dunlin.
Other Wildlife: The first Common Lizard of the year, an immature, was basking by the Visitor Centre with half a dozen Buff-tailed Bumblebee around the first flowering sallows.
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