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Sunday 12 December 2010

Isley Marsh and Foreshore to The Black Ground, Instow.

08:30 Tarka Trail.

Bullfinch 3 on the trail and c250 Lapwing in field next to fuel tanks.

08:50 Foreshore btwn main jetty and the Black Ground.

3 Great Crested Grebe; 93 Wigeon; 36 Oystercatcher; 17 Bar-tailed Godwit; 15 Redshank; 46 Grey Plover;
1 female Eider; 3 Little Grebe; 1 Little Egret; 1 Black-tailed Godwit; 22 Turnstone; 1 Snipe; 23 Ringed Plover;
5 Dark-bellied Brent and 5 Sanderling. Water rail screeching in overflow pond.

10:40 Isley Marsh.

9 Spoonbill ( 2 certainly ringed/marked with a possible 3rd ringed bird); 4 Little Egret; 5 Greenshank; 3 Grey Plover; u/k amount of Wigeon and Teal.

Walking back along Tarka Trail from Isley to the level crossing, a Water Rail ran across the path.