Had to do the WeBS a week earlier than scheduled, and this coincided with a very high tide that completely covered Flow Point (allowing a trio of gits in kayaks to paddle straight across it and flush all the birds roosting up against the railway). The Water Pipit was still in the area however. Counts were generally lower than average, perhaps due to the tide, but included a Great Northern Diver (just upriver from the Shaldon Bridge), a Great Crested Grebe, five Little Grebes, 28 Red-breasted Mergansers, two Teal, 35 Shelducks, 283 Oystercatchers, two Avocets, four Common Sandpipers, 56 Redshanks, a Greenshank and a Ringed Plover.
Elsewhere on patch a Chiffchaff was calling from the reeds at Town Quay, and several Fieldfares were amongst a flock of c.100 Redwings at Lower Netherton.
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