Yesterday on the marsh one green sandpiper, a peregrine falcon, corn bunting, linnet, chaffinch, cormorant, 2 little egret, 6 shoveler, 10 shelduck, tufted duck, a brent goose with the canada geese. Good numbers of gadwall, teal, wigeon, mallard and skylark.
At Wat Tyler Country Park on Sunday, Scrape Hide only: 7 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 79 Pochard, 6 Tufted Duck, 1 immature male Marsh Harrier, 1 Snipe, 3 Cetti's Warbler (heard only). While at the marina there were 380 wigeon on Vange Wick and 15 black-tailed godwits in the creek.