Counts from the estuary on a glorious winter's day on Sunday included 263
Oystercatchers, 93
Curlew, 71
Redshanks, 13
Avocets, nine
Ringed Plovers, five
Greenshanks, two
Common Sandpipers, 42
Shelducks, 36
Red-breasted Mergansers, 10
Mute Swans, two
Little Grebes, five
Little Egrets and eight
Cormorants (including one
sinensis).
On Saturday afternoon a check of Rackerhayes produced a fine male
Goldeneye along with nine
Tufted Ducks, six
Gadwalls, a
Great Crested Grebe and at least one
Marsh Tit.
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