The slow arrival of spring is currently more obvious in departures rather than arrivals, with counts from the estuary over high tide including 330 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 167 Oystercatcher, 150 Dunlin, 141 Curlew, 33 Sanderling, 26 Turnstone, 21 Grey and eight Ringed Plover, 13 Bar-tailed Godwit, 12 Knot, four Greenshank, four Red-breasted Merganser and the wintering Whimbrel.
Elsewhere 15 Great Crested Grebe, 13 Common Scoter, five Great Northern and five Red-throated Diver were offshore, at least 100 Chaffinch and a Siskin flew NE, with nine Stonechat and the Cetti's Warbler on site.
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| Shag - Lee Collins |
Other Wildlife: The overcast conditions meant the strandline was again the best place for invertebrates, spiders included Sand-bear Spider Arctosa perita, Dune Jumper Marpissa nivoyi and Clubionia phragmitidis with a Strandline Burrower Broscus cephalotes under driftwood.
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| Sand-bear Spider Arctosa perita - Alan Keatley |
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| Clubionia phragmitidis - Alan Keatley |
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| Strandline Burrower Broscus cephalotes - Alan Keatley |
Two Field Vole were under sheeting and a Grey Seal was off Warren Point.
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| Field Vole - Alan Keatley |
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