Hottest October day on record

I made a brief high-tide visit late during the comparative coolness of late afternoon on what has turned out to be the hottest October day on record with the mercury rising to 29c in London. Seven Common Sandpipers were roosting on the Pura Foods peninsula, my best ever October count with a single Stock Dove also there. Common Teal numbers have dropped with only three at Bow Creek and around 50 on the basin, other wildfowl included four Greylag and five Canada Geese flying in to roost at dusk, but for the first time for as long as I can remember I could find no Tufted Duck. Decent passerines were almost non existent with a single calling Chiffchaff in the ecology park the only thing of note.