Peterstone/ RGW

The foreshore continues to support excellent numbers of shelduck for this early in the winter season. Presumably their prefered feeding areas in Bridgwater Bay are not holding the usual food supplies? Also at Peterstone was another of the orange shelducks....Australian Shelduck hybrids? Two common scoter were on the sea off the sluice. No owls or partridge on RGW throughout the tidal cycle (very tidal are foreshore partridge, also nocturnal), a few smaller flocks of knot at low water, along with black-tailed godwit and all the usual wintering ducks which are starting to build up in number as the weeks pass.