Thursday lunchtime at Newport bridge : 7 little grebes, 2 little egrets, 1 greenshank, 2 common sandpipers, 9 redshank and 5 ringed plover. 22 curlew feeding in the field north of the river on the seaward side of the bridge. One great-crested grebe visible from the beach and a chiffchaff actively feeding in the scrub. No sign of the water pipit.
