Distant record shots of the Ruddy Shelduck.

                                                                         Ringed Plover.

         Waders on the realignment area included 140 Redshanks, 4 Greenshanks, 95 Golden Plovers, 380 Dunlin, 2 Curlew Sandpipers, 2 Little Stints, 9 Ringed Plovers, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, one Ruff, 10 Black-tailed Godwits, one Common Snipe, 2 Turnstones and 3 Common Sandpipers.   Ducks were 99 Common Shelducks, one Ruddy Shelduck, 120 Mallard, one Wigeon, one Pintail and 35 Teal.

         Also of note were 8 Kestrels, the Osprey, 2 Common Buzzards, a Kingfisher, 4 Little Grebes, 2 Grey Herons, 17 Little Egrets and 12 Cormorants.   A further 16 Cormorants were out on the shore where there were 600 Oystercatchers, 30 Knot, 600 Black-headed Gulls, 10 Sandwich Terns and 2 Gannets.   92 Wigeon in five parties came along the tide-line and into the Humber.