Despite arriving around midday, I also got to see some migration with groups of 22+3 Spoonbill, 20 Pintail and 6 Grey Heron passing over. I then moved on to Ostend harbour where I had a go at counting the high-tide roost of Turnstones but gave up when I reached 200 of them, a few of which were still looking snazzy in their breeding plumage.
Hiding amongst them was a lone, and rather early Purple Sandpiper, the confiding nature of the Turnstones allowing for close-up views of both species.
The following morning, I had hoped to do a seawatch but the weather was wrong so all I managed was a distant group of three unidentified ducks. Instead, I spent some time at the IJzermonding estuary in Nieuwpoort, where I found around a dozen Knot and at least eight Little Egrets, before twitching a juvenile Curlew Sandpiper in the polders.
