Today was the second instalment of the monthly wader count initiated by Dave Morrison, an attempt to count all the waders roosting along the Thames in the London area and to log all the roost sites; Bow Creek is the most westerly site and therefore the closest to central London; today it yielded 16 Redshank and three Common Sandpiper, not a great contribution, but I'm always amazed that any waders choose to use this site at all. High Tide at London Bridge was around 15: 30 today which made for an atmospheric last hour as plenty of wildfowl flighted into the basin including nine very noisy Canada Geese, a pair of Shelduck, 125 Common Teal, the overwintering female Pintail and a year record count of 56 Tufted Duck.
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