Return of the Teal

This morning saw the return of the first Teal to the river in the shape of two females. Another notable which left almost as quickly as it came was a single Greenshank, alerted to its presence by the call - which isn't heard too often on the estuary - the bird flew in, fed for less than a minute and was off again.

Four Common Sandpiper and an ever increasing flock of Dunlin and Ringed Plover made for interesting viewing albeit without finding anything amongst them, still a touch early yet though as the first Curlew Sandpipers have arrived here like clockwork for the last two years rocking up on 10th September both times.