 The beach sand was replaced for the summer of 2009 because, whilst clean, it had become rather muddy and inhospitable.The bay and the estuary of the river which comes to an end here attract little egrets, Muscovy ducks, huge flocks of herring gulls, greylag geese and mallard ducks.The diversity of breeds in the duck and geese population suggests that most of the original birds had escaped from captivity.