Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima).
Starting foggy, after a night of dense fog, but clearing shortly after sunrise, a NNE wind building through the morning. Inside the compound: 1 Brambling, 5 Song Thrush and a Firecrest. Out on the reserve: 1 Purple Sandpiper, 1 Oystercatcher and 3 Turnstone near the point.
Seawatching:
North: 6 Common Scoter.
east then north (out of the river then north): 2 Brent Goose.
East: 75 Cormorant.
South: 21 Cormorant, 2 Common Scoter and 1 Gannet.
West: 7 Cormorant.
Feeding offshore: 4 Black-headed Gull.
Moth trapping: 6 moth species between our 3 traps.
Bird ringing: 4 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Redwing.