Increasing signs of spring migration in the estuary at least with 32 Black-tailed Godwit, 10 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and the first Common Sandpiper of the year on the morning tide. Numbers increased on the evening tide, after rain, with 51 Whimbrel, 46 Dunlin, five Ringed Plover, four Common Sandpiper, single Guillemot and Razorbill, and offsite on Cockle Sands, 48 Pale-bellied Brent Geese.
Also still present 20 Bar-tailed Godwit, 14 Redshank, 14 Sanderling, three Grey Plover, three Knot, two Greenshank and the Dark-bellied Brent Goose. Elsewhere a Wheatear was on the Golf Course with 14 Common Scoter, 10 Sandwich Tern and the two Eider offshore.
Year List addition:
132. Common Sandpiper
Early Purple Orchid - Kim Summers
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