The third Green Sandpiper of the autumn was on the Railway Wall early morning, but there were few other signs of new arrivals in the estuary. Waders numbers remained settled through the day, with peak counts over the two tides including 579+ Ringed Plover, 200+ Dunlin, 12 Whimbrel, 10 Greenshank, four Bar-tailed Godwit, four Knot, three Grey Plover and a Common Sandpiper.
The leucistic Ringed Plover - Kevin Rylands
Sandwich Tern numbers were also largely static with c60 over both tides, in contrast Common Tern numbers dropped, with 200+ in the morning and 50 in the evening.
Also in the estuary two adult Osprey, a Kingfisher and the first juvenile Common Gull, with two Arctic Skua offshore and a Yellow Wagtail on the Golf Course.
Ringing News: New recoveries are a daily feature at the moment with a Polish ringed Sandwich Tern, another Dutch Common Tern and an Irish Ringed Plover.
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