14 purple sandpiper, 24 oystercatcher, 40 turnstone, curlew, 2 lapwing, 2 wheatear and a sparrowhawk.

Six sand martins were over the lake this morning and a jay near the reserve centre bird table.

At high tide this morning: 160 golden plover, 24 curlew, 4 purple sandpiper, redshank, 37 turnstone, 76 oystercatcher, grey plover and two common scoter down channel. On the flooded field below Sker House were 3 greylag geese and a pair of mute swans.

Bittern reported seen crossing a cutting in front of the southern hide and an otter on show out in the lake for over 2 hours today.

A freshly dead guillemot was found on Sker Beach today and a luckier individual was found alive and brought back to the reserve centre by a walker (Rhys) this afternoon. An otter was seen close to the southern hide early this morning and the first great crested grebe for over a month was on Kenfig Pool. Still no pochards seen in 2014!

A short-eared owl was reported this afternoon seen in the southern dunes from the yellow trail near where the blue permissive bridleway crosses.

Peregrine and merlin at lunch time today

Two bitterns and an otter reported today. The latter was sitting on reeds at the end of ‘Tree Cut’ left of the southern hide this afternoon.