Upper shore now pretty much sterile

A dry day with plenty of sunshine, but a cold north wind.

South shore (Malcolm)

A morning walk on the shore on the ebbing tide. The upper shore hasn't been covered by the tide for three days now, and despite yesterday's rain it is pretty dry. There is no sign of the small molluscs the inshore waders have been feeding on (they will be deeper in the mud out of reach). Understandably, there were no waders near the shoreline.

Shelduck 97 - but again the acres of tiny snails earlier this week, are now reduced to the areas where the tide has still reached. Most were along this drain.

Shelduck now restricted to the diminishing areas still covered by the these neap tides

There were some waders along the waterline, I don't normally go out on the ebbing tide as the waders are likely to move on. And most did.

c350 Knot and 20 Bar-Tailed Godwit flew off before I could get near the waterline. All that remained were

Grey Plover 29

Knot 4

Dunlin 4

A few of the Grey Plover and the SeaTruck displaying a nasty scrape!

The receding tide was exposing a sandbar. Black Combe on the background 

Meadow Pipit 2 in off

Swallow 1 in off

Mediterranean gulls 5 - 3 along the beach plus 2 on Red Nab.

Mediterranean gull on right. Resting Bar-Tailed Godwit on left

On the saltmarsh 

Lapwing 46

Redshank 23

Little Egret 4

Little Egret and Redshank

Linnet 52

Kevin checked this afternoon 

Wheatear 3 (2 along foreshore and 1 at the lighthouse).

I had a walk along the sea wall this evening (Malcolm)

Rock Pipit 2 together near the lighthouse 

Eider 1 female

There was a large gathering of feeding gulls way out in the bay.

The only explanation I can think of would be a huge shoal of small fish (Whitebait or Sandeels) being attacked by larger fish (Bass and/or Garfish).

In the Nature Park:

Common Darter 1

Red Admiral 1

Small White 1

This young Carrion Crow was getting an etiquette lesson