Third day on the trot at Kilpaison. This time a very strong SW wind howling in with an overcast sky pretty much precluded photograhy though I managed one shot of a Ringed Plover.
There were plenty of waders, although with 3, restless, groups, spread along the beach with the tide only just starting to drop they were difficult to count. There were certainly over 400 birds present and in one group I counted 62 Ringed Plover and in another 5 Turnstone and 6 Sanderling. The majority were Dunlin and a Curlew Sandpiper was also in amongst them - perhaps the same bird from Wednesday as it was similarly marked with a dark peach wash.
Over at Angle Harbour it was Med Gull City on the shingle spit with 33 birds the vast majority adults in winter plumage with one 2nd Winter and one juv. Two of the Meds were ringed - RP42 on a green ring and (I think) 3123 on a pale yellow ring. Also some 80 B H Gulls and one Common Gull. 4 Little Egrets were initially roosting in a tree before dropping down to the back of the harbour.
An impressive sea at Freshwater West but no waders on the beach.