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A flurry of waders on the lowest section of the Trent (by Garthorpe) this evening, on the rising tide:
Dunlin 5
Ringed Plover 18
These flew off together to Alkborough Flats
Turnstone 12 appeared over the river perhaps from the flats and then flew off overland to the SW
Apart from curlew and roosting plovers, it is unusual to have waders on the intertidal banks here (and they don't tend to stay long as the substrate is perhaps too mobile to hold many invertebrates) - though there are plenty on the stickier mud on the Yorkshire side at Trent Falls. The counts of both turnstone (by 11 !) and ringed plover were records for my seen-from-the-farm list.
There are plenty of gulls here now, especially at evening, including a Black-headed Gull with a colour ring I couldn't read today. On 7th August, there was an adult Yellow-legged Gull on a sand bank (found by Robert Carr).
Andrew
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