Our Godwit flock will soon have all left our local estuaries heading first to China and then to Alaska to breed. They have spent our summer although not a very good one resting up and feeding to avoid more severe climate of Alaska This morning just after high tide I counted 54 remaining, and they were rather agitated on a windy and rather cool morning due to the brisk southerly. They joined a flock of over 200 pied stilts resting up on the shell banks.
