Today was fairly quiet at the south end.   Best were 2 Wheatears, 5 Willow Warblers, Green Woodpecker, Corn Bunting, 650 Starlings, 7 Cormorants, Eider, Gannet, Arctic Skua, 11 Curlews, 2 Whimbrels, 26 Redshanks, Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers, Wood Sandpiper, Ruff and 350 Golden Plovers.

Update for the 13th August

 A decent count for terns going to roost, at last.   At Stonebridge between 1900 and dusk, there were 4,360 Common Terns, 28 Arctic Terns, 86 Sandwich Terns, 3,500 Black-headed Gulls, 800 Common Gulls, one Mediterranean Gull, 94 Redshanks, 10 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Ruffs, 3 Avocets, 840 Oystercatchers, 68 Curlews, 45 Whimbrels, 140 Dunlin, one Little Stint, 35 Grey Plovers, 5 Turnstones, 30 Knot, 5 Cormorants and an Osprey.