A minimum of 176 Sandwich Tern, including at least 44 juveniles, were present on the dropping tide with six Common and a Little Tern. Gull numbers were however reduced with a minimum of 52 Mediterranean Gull, with a 1cy Yellow-legged Gull in The Bight.
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| Little & Sandwich Tern - Lee Collins |
Wader counts included 99 Redshank, 28 Whimbrel, 12 Greenshank, five Bar-tailed Godwit, five Dunlin, three Ringed and a juvenile Little Ringed Plover and single Grey Plover and Turnstone.
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| Little Ringed Plover - Lee Collins |
Elsewhere five Manx and a Balearic Shearwater were offshore, with a family group of three Green Woodpecker feeding on the golf course fairways, with a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker doing the same less expected.
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| Cirl Bunting - Martin Overy |
Ringing News: A total of six juvenile Sandwich Tern from the same site nr Lymington, Hampshire highlights the importance of the Exe Estuary for this colony.
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