Point: Chaffinch 20, Brambling 2, Greenfinch 8, Reed Bunting 5.
Viz mig: Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch 5, Lesser Redpoll.
Mound, viz mig: Buzzard, Skylark 4, Starling 25, Goldfinch 4, Siskin 2, Lesser Redpoll.
A two metre surge stopped flats from uncovering fully as the neap tide ebbed. For a couple of hours many of the waders were in nigh-constant flight searching for their missing mud, checking and re-checking the edge of Rainham Saltings, interspersing with trips out to the Oozes and Bartlett Spit. Where they did not settle early in anywhere near normal numbers was on the southern edge of Rainham Saltings, where the twitchers were searching for a Shrike. The other interesting behaviour was that the larger species roosts on Rainham Saltings, those that usually leave roost a little later than the smaller waders, were out early, as soon as people were loitering on the wall above the saltings. While roost orders usually see smaller birds out early (small bodymass, more feeding), larger waders flush at a greater distance than their smaller cousins.
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