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Thursday 27 January 2011

Averton Gifford etc...

Averton Gifford: (on rising tide)

3 greenshank
8 redshank
1 common sandpiper

West Charelton Marsh, kinsgbridge estruary (high tide)
75 dark bellied brent geese
1 little grebe
10 red breasted merganser
5 goldeneye
4 scaup
4 tufted duck
27 grey plover
2 curlew
7 oystercatcher
250 dunlin
65 widgeon
2 great crested grebe

Frogmore Creek, Kingsbridge estruary (falling tide)
5 little grebe
3 dark bellied brent geese
47 shellduck
129 widgeon
35 teal
27 mallard
6 tufted duck
2 shoveller
10 redshank
4 greenshank
1 Avocet
15 curlew
9 oystercatcher

[from Tom Forster]