Wed 31st July 19

Max Martin started the morning with a summer plumage Knot flying south past the sluice.

A Kingfisher was seen along the brook heading toward the sluice on route to the hide MR. and a Ringed Plover was on the beach PRD

From the hide :- 14 Avocet (+ 18 Young), 3+ Com. Sandpipers, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 5 Dunlin, 1 LRP, 1 Blk.T.Godwit, 1 Snipe, 9 Lapwing, 12 Cormorant, 1 Lt. Egret, 2 Teal, 1 Shelduck, 1 Kingfisher (bird from earlier), 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel PRD/BW/JH/MM/MR.

At the end of July the total number of species recorded on the site so far this year stands at 163.