Seasalter and Castle Coote

 Mon. 14th Dec.

A beautiful day and high tide about midday so I went up to the western end of C Coote where I suspected I would see all the dunlin and wader flocks fly over from Sheppey which they have been doing lately. On route the 1250 strong brent flock was still on the fields along with the 23 whitefronts. Seemed to be a dearth of small birds seeing only 3 mipits, 3-4 stonechats and 1 reed bunting. I met Mike Roser, Dave Perrin and Bob Gomes doing the WEBS count at CCoote. We watched the waders wheeling about over the roost at CC, rather restless, c.250 wigeon were on the inner pool but no other duck sp.

                        Brent Flock.      These fields are destined to be covered with solar panels!!

                                                        High tide at Castle Coote

   

                                                                          Wigeon

                                              Mainly Dunlin (one of the roost beaches they used)

One strange sighting in this day of social distancing was a group  of special needs 'children' on an outing, one in a wheelchair which they lifted over the style.   (Maybe in a bubble)