Thu 1st Aug 19

Not quite the numbers that some places have, but nice to still have 3 Wood Sands on the scrape for the start of a new month.

From the hide :- 16 Avocet +18 young, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 4 Com. Sandpipers, 1 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 2 Oystercatcher + 2 chicks, 47 Lapwing (on marsh at back of scrape), 8 Blk.T. Godwits, (made two attempts to land then flew out south), 44 Blk.H. Gulls, 1 Shelduck, 11 Cormorants, 6 Greylag, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, a few Swallows, 3 Sand Martin MM/CB/MR