With the numbers of holiday-makers significantly tailing-off and a cooler, duller and earlier morning playing its part, it felt more like "our" beach again.
There were lots of waders on the beach - sanderlings (the larger paler sandpipers), semipalmated sandpipers (the tiny brown sandpipers) and semipalmated plovers (in both cases semipalmated means half-webbed, although it's not obvious that their feet are webbed at all).
All these birds were amazing well disguised and hard to spot from even a short distance away. These mourning doves (although not obviously adapted for beach-going were also pretty well disguised:
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