High tide was at 20:30 today about the same time as sunset. An initial look out from the Windmill showed very little. A few Curlew, couple of Meadow Pipits and Oystercatcher scattered about the place. As the sun was getting low it was blinding, it was also very breezy but I had the wind behind me as I walked in the direction of Fairhaven. At the RNLI Jetty I saw 5 Linnet that took flight as I approached and flew onto the green to join the Starlings. I also saw a White Wagtail, Female House Sparrow and appx 1000 Dunlin flying and settling on the water line.
As I approached 'Cocklers Cobbles' the sun dipped making visibility much better. A flock of around 500 birds swarmed passed showing too much clean white on the underside to all be Dunlin. Luckily they landed and a quick look in the scope showed a mixed flock of Turnstone and Ringed Plover.
It's funny to think that if you don't know what you're looking for you would never know there were hundreds of birds here! You'd just think they were stones on a beach!
I stayed there for a while and more birds arrived, settling quite close giving me the chance to get some photos. On the way back I saw a couple of Bar-tailed Godwits off the Jetty and managed to get a phone-scoped image.
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