Tonight just before sunset Richard Carr and I found 23 American Avocets and 6 Willets, then after Richard left I watched two more groups of Willets join the six for a total of 90 Willets. I then found a Stilt Sandpiper hanging with a Lesser Yellowlegs near the larger shorebirds. There were also at least 10 Pectoral Sandpipers and a few hundred Dunlin present. These shorebirds were all in the shorebird cell of Hillman Marsh on Mersea Rd 2, about 6 km east of Leamington in Essex County.
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