a bittern and 9 pintail at west rise. nothing of note down the cuckmere and the (scandinavian) rock pipits were being bastards behaving like water pipits. low tide is not the best time to be looking for these. ended the day at arlington where there was a white wag in with the shetland ponies and a nice example of scandinavian rock pipit on the dam. the gull roost was difficult to count cos the flock was constantly 'leap-frogging' but there were more than 20 lovely adult meds.