Otters at Newport

Newport Thurs am; 8 Black T Godwits & 2 Curlew Sands didnt hang about long. Also 4 Redshank, 3 Little Egrets; 11 Dunlin, 17 Ringed Plovers & a Turnstone on the Parrog rocks; 45 Curlews & 29 Oystercatchers on the roost.
Was told about an otter seen in the last few days by builders at the white house & by the bridge in the late afternoon. So, returned at 5pm & after a few minutes an otter appeared at the bridge. swam slowly and playfully downstream then ambled over the shingle mobbed by a Little Egret, quite unconcerned about the line of amazed watchers on the bridge.There are said to have been as many as 3 seen.
When I arrived I was asked if I'd come about the Osprey, 1 if which had flown downstream about 1/2 hr previously. Yet another dip on an Osprey at Newport!
And an ad Med Gull.