Beach Reserve

Plenty around this morning and good calm conditions also, roosting waders on Flat Beach and Ternery Pool included 560 Oystercatcher, 450 Golden Plover, 900 Lapwing, 75 Dunlin, 36 Ringed Plover and 170 Curlew were on the new saltmarsh area. Sanderling made up the bulk of waders roosting along Shore Ridges with at least 120 birds, 10 Grey Plover and 8 Knot were also present and it just shows how things can change on a daily/weekly basis. The calm sea conditions made a bit of sea watching easier it was very quite with the odd Red-throated Diver passing by, but finding three Slavoinian Grebes out from the Old Lifeboat House made the effort worthwhile.