Despite some road travel restrictions (due to the "Iron Man" event) it was possible, by using the minor back-roads, to get around most of the Carew & Cresswell system to do WeBs counts at high tide this morning.
Numbers of waterfowl and waders were generally quite low. However, at the regularly used salt-marsh wader roosts, it was pleasing to see 14 greenshanks arrive to roost along-side c. 30 curlews (mostly hidden in the taller vegetation), eventually 45 redshanks and several dunlin. Little egrets (11) easily out-numbered herons in the area this morning.
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| Greenshanks (eventually 14 in all) arriving to roost alongside curlews and redshanks in the salt-marsh |
Below Carew French Mill the "usual?" adult Mediterranean gull was roosting with 50+ black-headed gulls on the Carew River. A kingfisher also made a typical fly-by appearance over the Millpond as the drizzle began to set in at the end of the count.
