Combined totals from the estuary on Saturday afternoon and this morning included 308 Oystercatchers, 61 Curlew, 50 Turnstones, 14 Greenshanks, 13 Common Sandpipers, eight Ringed Plovers, seven Dunlin, one Ruff, one Redshank, 356 Canada Geese, one Bar-headed Goose, c.50 Mallards, 26 Mute Swans, two Moorhens, 39 Little Egrets, 10 Cormorants and one Water Rail.
The Ruff has been showing off Passage House for the past three days and is the first on patch for a decade. Yesterday a Little Gull was also seen in the Passage House area but there was no sign this morning
