With Geoff Busby, we caught the dropping high tide this morning which had good numbers of waders out on the sands. A juv peregrine was out on the salt marsh plus whimbrel and med gull. A couple of tree pipit were heard plus a crossbill over.
On the sands good numbers of Dunlin (approx 680), ringed plover( approx 175), sanderling,30 and a knot. Highlights were single juv little stint and little ringed plover which was picked up as it headed off .
On the negative, a dead Barn owl was on the edge of the beach near the marram grass. It was fresh with no obvious wound marks apart from some flattened? Missing feathers off the crown. Don’t know how it met its end as no obvious signs of predation, just a real shame as there doesn’t appear to be that many around .