Another very wet day with poor visibility that hampered this morning's survey and cloaked the Oystercatcher and Curlew roosts in mist. What could be seen included c.40 Redshanks, nine Greenshanks, four Dunlin, two Common Sandpipers, 61 Mallards, 18 Teal, 15 Shelducks, 11 Mute Swans, eight Red-breasted Mergansers, six Little Grebes, two Wigeon, 14 Cormorants, three Shags and a good total of five Kingfishers. The congregation of large gulls in the Passage House area contained 380 Herring Gulls, 67 Great Black-backed Gulls, four Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 15 Common Gulls.
