The five Velvet Scoter remained off the seawall with 26 Common Scoter, but most birds were on the move with hundreds of auks and Kittiwake heading south, closer in there were at least 35 Razorbill and two Guillemot. Also moving a briefly lingering 1CY Little Gull, 14 Red-throated, 11 Great Northern and a Black-throated Diver, with seven Great Northern and a Red-throated Diver on the sea early afternoon.
The Yellow-browed Warbler was again elusive around the Main Pond, with 14 Chiffchaff, six Goldcrest and a Firecrest also in the bushes. A fem/imm Black Redstart was a brief new arrival moving along the exposed stones at Warren Point before it headed off high towards The Maer, Exmouth.
Counts from the estuary over high tide included 150 Redshank, 97 Curlew, 81 Grey and 45 Ringed Plover, 76 Knot, 57 Turnstone, 55 Bar and 19 Black-tailed Godwit, 32 Sanderling, a Kingfisher and the Avocet.
Ringing News: Over 50 Exe ringed Dunlin were recorded along with the wintering Welsh ringed Knot, Hampshire ringed Ringed Plover, German ringed Brent Goose, Dorset ringed Great Black-backed Gull and Seaton ringed Shelduck.
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