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If you're a bit of a birder, this is the holiday home for you - especially if you're fascinated by birds that frequent estuaries. We are extremely lucky in that at low tide, all the estuary birds seem to congregate at the bend in the river directly in front of the house, affording us with the most superb view of all their antics!

We have a powerful telescope for your use, 80mm 28x - 45x which brings all the birds into sharp focus, together with a hefty tome of a bird-identifying book.

One of the most fascinating birds is a lone male osprey who lives on the estuary and hasn't actually migrated for the last seven years so he's there year-round!

Below is a list of all the birds that have been seen on or around the estuary......so far........!

(This list very kindly produced by local resident John Stiles)

Red-throated Diver	Great Crested Grebe	Little Grebe	Slavonian Grebe
Cormorant	Little Egret	Grey Heron	Mute Swan
Canada Goose	Brent Goose	Shelduck	Wigeon
Mallard	Shoveler	Teal	Tufted Duck
Red-breasted Merganser	Sparrowhawk	Buzzard	Osprey
Kestrel	Red-legged Partridge	Coot	Oystercatcher
Ringed Plover	Golden Plover	Lapwing	Turnstone
Dunlin	Curlew	Black-tailed Godwit	Redshank
Common Sandpiper	Black-headed Gull	Herring Gull	Great Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull	Common Tern	Woodpigeon	Collared Dove
Turtle Dove	Cuckoo	Tawny Owl	Little Owl
Swift	Green Woodpecker	Great Spotted Woodpecker	Skylark
Sand Martin	Swallow	House Martin	Tree Pipit
Meadow Pipit	Pied Wagtail	Grey Wagtail	Wren
Dunnock	Robin	Blackbird	Fieldfare
Redwing	Song Thrush	Mistle Thrush	Cetti's Warbler
Garden Warbler	Whitethroat	Blackcap	Wood Warbler
Chiffchaff	Goldcrest	Spotted Flycatcher	Marsh Tit
Blue Tit	Great Tit	Coal Tit	Long-tailed Tit
Nuthatch	Starling	Jay	Magpie
Jackdaw	Carrion Crow	Rook	Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow	Chaffinch	Siskin	Greenfinch
Golfinch	Bullfinch	Linnet	Corn Bunting
Yellowhammer	Cirl Bunting	Spoonbill	and more..........

The following have also been spotted at other local sites:

Greenshank	Moorhen	Marsh Harrier	Kingfisher
Snipe	Reed Warbler	Peregrine	Gadwall
Rock Pipet	Wheatear	Chough	Redstart
Black Redstart	Raven	Stonechat	Whinchat
and more..........