Cattle Egret - Bowling Green.
Good to see tern numbers have picked up again. A look off Shelly Beach this evening produced c5/600+ Common Terns. Many were resting on Bull Hill and a load more were feeding in the river. The light wasn't great so picking out other species wasn't straightforward but I eventually found 1 juvenile Little Tern and 1 juvenile Arctic Tern - presumably yesterday's bird. Also off Shelly Beach - 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 64 Great Black-backed Gulls and c60+ Sandwich Terns. Not a lot else today but the 6cy Yellow-legged Gull was on the Imperial rugby ground and a Hobby was hunting over the top fields of Orcombe quite early on.
Had the urge to see some waders this morning so went to Bowling Green over the high tide - 3 Spotted Redshank, 1 Avocet, 3 Turnstones, 22 Greenshank, 8+ Ringed Plovers, c150+ Dunlin, 6+ Knot, 14 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 10+ Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Whimbrel, 21 Pintail, 12 Shoveler, 17 Shelduck, c50 Teal, 7 Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, 1 Water Rail, 1 juvenile Common Gull and 1 Peregrine. Also - good numbers of Redshank, Curlew and Black-tailed Godwits along with 3 Spoonbill, 5+ Cattle Egrets, 6 Grey Herons and 37 Little Egrets.
The semi-resident 6cy Yellow-legged Gull was loafing on the Imperial rugby ground today.
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