Also forgot to mention around 40 Avocets seen briefly in flight above high bank on estuary below sluice, and another Kingfisher and a Peregrine near the second Spotted Redshank sighting.
Short-eared owl was back in its usual field by the sluice on Sunday and, this morning, the db Brent had returned to the saltings after a brief absence. There was also a single spotted redshank on the falling tide with the usual teal, wigeon and common redshanks. A kingfisher perched up in willows near the sluice will soon have nowhere to fish from along that stretch as the willows are all being pollarded downstream from the A38.
