On arrival the elusive Barred Warbler hadn't been seen but a Great Northern Diver was offshore and visible from the carpark.
East side was pretty quiet with just a very distant Kingfisher and the usual three skulking reedbed species calling. A Sparrowhawk flew in front of the west side hides scattering stuff.
On the foreshore a nice group of twenty or so Sanderlings were disturbed before I could unpack the camera and from the west side hides a dozen Snipe and the usual wildfowl plus two Ringed Plovers. Ian came into MSH to say the Barred Warbler had reappeared so we walked back smartly and eventually Ivor pointed it out in the roadside bush adjacent to the seating area where the above photos were taken. It eventually relocated to the one small bush just behind the gents where it sat unobtrusively preening.
Back out on the sea three Common Scoters and a distant pack of Eider off Brownwich/Chilling, probably in excess of sixty birds and fifteen or so Great Crested Grebes.
