A productive walk this morning yielded a Jack Snipe in spartina near the path between Brue Mouth and Huntspill sluice, even showed in open briefly. Also just above the sluice 3 Goosanders, one male, and a Kingfisher in flight. Below the sluice one Spotted Redshank, and 300 metres upstream from sluice a Dark Bellied Brent Goose on the estuary.
Finally, two more Spotted Redshank in flight between Stockland Reach and Combwich Reach a few hundred metres above where Cobbs Leaze Rhyme enters the Parrett.
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.
