This evening:

Wigeon at the western end

4 Great White Egrets

5 Little Egrets

Yesterday’s first winter Caspian Gull was present again before flying off west at 6:33pm

184 Herring Gulls

67 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

5 Great Black-backed Gulls

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This evening’s highlights up to darkness:

311 Tufted Duck

2 Great White Egrets at the western end

Definitely 10 Little Egrets but perhaps as many as 12/13 present

1 Common Sandpiper on the sailing club shore

1 adult Mediterranean Gull

Beautiful first winter Caspian Gull picked up late on (so videos only as it was getting pretty dark; full videos on the website but a few videograbs below which don’t do the bird any justice at all!)

288 Herring Gulls

171 Lesser Blacked Gulls

15 Great Black-backed Gulls, all adults apart from one first winter

3 Pintail dropped into the eastern end of the flash around 10am and were still present around 10:15

Info thanks to Bill Harrison

This evening, juvenile Black Tern and adult Common Tern, 3 Great White Egrets, 3 Little Egrets, 131 Herring Gulls, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls and 56 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, also a single Wigeon.

 Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Juvenile Black Tern still present this morning and a Bittern dropped into the main reedbed in Ramsdales around 08:40.

Info thanks to Bill Harrison

Very early this morning:

5 Wigeon, 3 off the car park and at 07:45 two drakes flew in from the west and dropped into East Bay

24 Teal

206 Tufted Duck

8 Little Egrets

2 Great White Egrets (red-ringed on Ramsdales Scrape)

Adult Common Tern

Juvenile Black Tern

Small numbers of Meadow Pipits passing over south

5 Chiffchaff around the ruck

This morning 7:45 - 10:00;

Black tern still present 

Common tern 1

Wigeon 2

Great white egret 2+

Little egret 5+

From first light this morning:

60 Pink-footed Geese flew over NW and 21 flew west

8 Wigeon flew in from the east at 07:30 and appeared to drop into the western end but could not be relocated later on

196 Tufted Duck but a lot of disturbance later on for some reason 

7 Little Egrets with 6 together on the southern shore at first light

2+ Great White Egrets

12 Snipe, with 2 flying down into the Ramsdales area from the west and then two flocks of 7 and 3 heading over west

Adult Common Tern still present

Juvenile Black Tern still present

41 Swallows SE in 3 flocks

368 Meadow Pipits flew over the ruck heading south in small flocks and ones and twos up to 08:30

5 Chiffchaffs around the ruck

3 Jays over the ruck very high south

1 Yellowhammer SW over the ruck at 08:22

Black Tern - Juvenile still present of the corner of rucks at 2.30 pm

Hobby - 1 Hunting over rucks then off west

Swallow- 5 > s

Common Tern- 1

Little Egret -5 

Great White Egret -1 

Chiffchaff 4 ,one singing on corner of rucks 

This morning from first light:

3 skeins of Pink-footed Geese over, with 17 low west at 07:45, 22 west at 08:30 and 4 east at 08:40

Drake Common Scoter in East Bay (record shot attached)

232 Tufted Duck

1 Pochard

3 Wigeon dropped in at 08:33 but flew off west 2 minutes later

3 Great White Egrets, all around the spit/mini spit at one stage and which included the long staying red-ringed bird

7+ Little Egrets, all highly mobile as the morning drew on and presumably included a bird which was sat atop a large tree south of the sailing club towards mid-morning

1 Snipe over north

Juvenile Black Tern

Adult Common Tern

Single Swallow through SE

14 Chiffchaffs around the ruck

2 Jays flew very high south over the ruck together

Black Tern Juvenile still present off rucks at 11am digiscoped shot at 500 yards below

Great White Egret- 1

Little Egret - 4

Kingfisher -3

Common Tern- 1 

Juvenile Black Tern this evening, also adult Common Tern and two Little Egrets.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

From the sailing club this morning, 

Common tern 1 adult still

Great white egret 1

Little egret 4

Wigeon 1

This evening, the red-ringed Great White Egret was at the western end but then flew off SE. Also present, adult Common Tern, Little Egret, 18 Swallows, 1 Sand Martin SW and 5 Pink-footed Geese flew in at 7:31pm resting off the car park.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

This morning, common tern still at the western end also great white egret here. At least one little egret in Ramsdales.

All hides still locked at 9am when I left, apparently opening the hides in a "Nature reserve" is low on the priority list.

Other stuff from.penny North bank this morning 

Shoveler- 54 (Teal scrape)

Wigeon-2 (Teal Scrape)

Little Egret - 2

Gadwall -25

Cettis Warbler- 2

Goldcrest -6 

Willow Tit - 2

Nuthatch -5

Blackcap-1 

Chiffchaff -1

Tufted Duck c250+

Leach's Petrel showed well for me for about an half hour or so, up to 12.23 pm  . record shot attached 

Initially seen earlier than me by Gordon Newman great find , then after a text letting me know there was likely a petrel on I mooched back to Horrocks hide as I had been counting birds in the north bank pools and picked the Leach's up being chased around the east bay by gulls .

Single common tern still present this morning, 3 little egrets and a wigeon at Tom Edmondson hide were best.

Early to mid-afternoon today:

2 Little Egrets

Probably 2 Hobby, with what looked like a juvenile over the western end at 15:04 which quickly moved to over the ruck and put on a good show until around 15:17 soaring and occasionally rapidly stooping down low, presumably to catch dragonflies. Then at 15:35, an adult flashed east, quite low, across Ramsdales.

8+ Swallows south in ones and twos

22 Chiffchaffs across the ruck and the nature reserve area

1 Raven flew south at 15:07

From first light, in what was unforecast rain:

172 Tufted Duck, though many flew off NW when disturbed by a canoeist

3 Little Egrets

1 adult Great Black-backed Gull loafing

1 adult Common Tern

9 Chiffchaffs around the ruck 

Also this morning, 1 adult common tern, 2 little egrets, 34 shoveler mainly on Teal scrape and 1 wigeon from Tom Edmondson hide.

A Hobby was perched in trees at the western end late afternoon today.

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes

Also mid morning a flock of 15 Goosander fem/1st W landed stayed 5 mins then left east pic attached

For the sake of accuracy, it appears that the little gull that I saw early morning was actually a juvenile, or at least it still had some juvenile plumage with black markings on the hind neck.