A quick mooch around Ferry Rd up to 10:40 this morning with a Single Jack Snipe, 3 Common Snipe, 4 Linnets, 12 Yellowhammer and a Little Egret. (TC)

4 Jack Snipe & 6 Snipe in the flooded fields off Ferry Rd. Monday 10th (OM) 

Odd looking Herring Gull on the cudlow field this morning

 Very quiet again offshore with c80 Sanderling moving along the shoreline, c60 Med Gull and just 2 Red-breasted Merganser on the sea. In the flooded fields north of Cudlow, 3 Lapwing, 3 Shelduck and 2 Red-legged Partridge.

Loss of all shrub along Climping beach

Red-legged Partridge

 A glorious morning starting from the back of the golf course, finding c60 Linnet north of the golf course, good numbers of Greenfinch, Goldfinch and a couple of Jay. Through longwood which was very quiet, then through the setaside at the bottom of Longwood finding 2 Stonechat, plenty of Reed Bunting, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Pied Wagtail, Song Thrush and a Kestrel. Back along the west beach, with mixed flock of the commoner Gulls on the tideline with several Sanderling. 

Stonechat

Reed Bunting

Meadow Pipit

Onto Ferry road with 2 Jack Snipe and 4 Common Snipe.

Jack Snipe

Just one Rock Pipit in cudlow field this afternoon with 18 Oystercatcher and a few Skylark. Plenty of Med, Common and Black-headed Gulls on the sea, but very little movement offshore.

Rock Pipit

Common Gull

 Very grey and overcast, with a flat calm sea found very little movement offshore, with a Great-northern Diver moving west being the only highlight.

Brent Geese - 10w 2e

Red-breasted Merganser - 9e 17os

Great-crested Grebe - 1os

Med Gull - c50e 25os

Oystercatcher - 17

Rock Pipit - 3

Meadow Pipit - 19

Skylark - 52

Linnet - 30

Reed Bunting - 22

Stonechat - 2

Pied Wagtail - 5

Buzzard - 1

Little Egret - 1

Rock Pipits

Common Gull