Another unsuccessful trip to the Daucleddau and Eastern Cleddau confluence in a vain search for an Osprey found the/a Great White Egret. It initially flew down from Slebech and landed opposite Crafty Wood. (John Steer's Osprey was probably behind me as I was looking eastwards, watching the GWE and generally scanning for other stuff.) Later it flew right past me as I was standing at Ferry Cottages (camera still in car, obviously) and settled at Picton Point, feeding in the rocky bay at around 11.05. It was still there when I departed half an hour later. The other stuff included 150+ Black-headed Gulls, three Great Black-backed Gulls - two being juveniles and squabbling over a fish carcass in front of an adult, a few Lesser Black-backed and a single Herring Gull, plus singles of Grey Heron, Little Egret, Greenshank and Great Crested Grebe. A few Curlew had turned up, but most seemed to still be over at Sprinkle Pill.
A quick visit to Landshipping Quay found some of the smaller waders in the stream at low tide - around 25 Redshank, seven Greenshank, six Ringed Plover and three Dunlin, but only singles of Little Egret and Curlew and no sign of Ospreys. On Wednesday I watched a couple of Little Egrets fly from the quay over to Sprinkle Pill, one km away, in about one minute. We mere mortals can drive the 20 mile road route in 30 minutes - the birds have it easy.