A quiet morning on the estuary with the best birds being four
Whimbrel - two at Passage House and two at Flow Point, with the former joining the latter at high tide. Other counts included five
Common Sandpipers, 74
Oystercatchers, three
Redshanks, one
Greenshank, 12
Little Egrets, 15
Mute Swans, 18
Shelducks and five
Sandwich Terns. Despite the overnight cloud and rain few passerine migrants were evident with Laurie reporting just two
Willow Warblers at Bundle Head.
The first Reed Warbler of the year appeared at Hackney Marshes on 12th April, when three House Martins were just outside the patch at Sandygate and 50+ Sand Martins were at Teigngrace the previous day (thanks Cilla Ingram).
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