Weather: WNW force 3/4
A female Eider, probably the same bird as yesterday, was first spotted quite a way out in the Swash
to the west but flew in and landed in the Gutter as the tide made.
Two of the six Common
Scoter noted today were also east of the main island and could be heard
calling.
On the ebb five Wigeon also appeared in the Gutter, briefly going onto
the East Hoyle for a preen.
Nineteen Purple Sandpipers were a good count at high tide, with fair numbers of other waders (3,000 Knot, 600 Dunlin, 205 Grey Plover, 160 Curlew, about 100 Turnstone and 64 Redshank).
The 413 Brents today included 2 dar-bellied and 2 previously noted colour
ringed birds. A solitary Shelduck was by Little Eye over the tide. Again fresh evidence todayof the presence of a Fox at some stage
Photos AS.
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