watched from 15:20 till 19:30
started with seawatch 15:20 till 17:00 from the lifeguard hut , most stuff to far for positive Id but closer bits included 1 Arctic Skua , 1 little tern in with a feeding group of sandwich terns , 1 adult Mediterranean gull flew to langstone Rock , some distant Manx shearwater ( 10+) and steady passage of gannets , 1 common scoter close in .
Then watched the bight area from 17:15 till 19:30
1 juv little stint, 2 curlew sandpiper, 39 sanderling on the beach, 400+ dunlin, 200+ ringed plover, 12+ turnstone, 29+ knot, 4 common sandpiper, 1 juv bar tailed godwit, 1 grey plover, large number of wigeon in shutterton creek area , another Arctic skua off shore.
The PECTORAL SANDPIPER was relocated in an area with no general access along with 3 more common sandpiper and a kingfisher
A good evenings birding around the warren
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