Today's bird highlights
British Steel hide/estuary
Hen harrier, 2 brambling, 41 greylag goose, 118 shelduck, 115 wigeon, 72 gadwall, 13 teal, 6 shoveler, 90 lapwing, 1170 oystercatcher, 145 dunlin, 11 snipe, 18 black tailed godwit, 7 redshank, 3 greenshank, 4 little egret, 11 great crested grebe, 2 red breasted merganser, 3 goldeneye, water rail, kingfisher, peregrine and sparrowhawk.
Millennium wetlands
Goosander, 5 snipe, water rail, 2 little grebe, 10 pochard, 25 tufted duck, 89 gadwall, 47 mallard, 8 cormorant and kestrel.
