After a pretty quiet Marloes Mere WEBS count with best being 18 Gadwall I decided to have a look at the Glossy Ibis which was feeding well quite close to the road by the beach at Dale and stopped at the Gann which looked quite busy.
The quite busy turned out to be 500-600 Golden Plover and 150'ish Lapwing. The Golden Plover were initially around the pools but then aerial and impossible to get a good count while 120 of the Lapwings landed on the mud just upstream of the bridge with others flying around and dropping into the ponds and the nearby old sandpit fields. 140+ Wigeon was a good number on the ponds with 10 Little Grebe and a couple of Greenshank but with the dropping tide Redshank were spread around the tideline as were the Oystercatchers and a few Curlew. An impressive 80 Carrion Crow dropped in to forage on the shoreline, but no Hoodie, and a good mixed flock of gulls upstream but I didn't want to disturb the Lapwing so kept well away.