Glourious morning and very warm around Marsh Farm, checking all the Starling flocks but still no pinkies.

Little-ringed Plover - 1

Shelduck - 1

Great-crested Grebe - 1

Cuckoo - 1

Grey Partridge - 2

Cetti's Warbler - 4 heard

Reed Warbler - p

Blackcap - 10

Whitethroat - 7

Chiffchaff - 5

Bullfinch - 4

Yellowhammer - 5

Swift - 3

Swallow - 2

Song Thrush - 1

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Jay - 2

Grey Heron - 1

Buzzard - 3

Not surprisingly quiet this morning, with a Cuckoo at the back of Longwood a nice suprise.

Cuckoo - 1

Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Cett's Warbler - hrd

Reed Warbler - 6

Whiethroat - 7

Blackcap - 5

Chiffchaff - 2

Grey Heron - 3

Little Egret - 2

Buzzard - 1

Kestrel - 1

Swift - 15W

Swallow - 4

Green Woodpecker - 2

Sandwich Tern - 5E 4W

Kestrel Golf Course

Southern Marsh Orchid

 An adult Yellow-legged Gull amongst the local Herring Gulls this afternoon at Marsh Farm, also single Little-ringed Plover, Buzzard, Pied Wagtails, Yellowhammer and Swallows.

 A coulpe of hours around the patch this morning with Cetti's Reed & Sedge Warbler still in song from the golf course and several each of Whitethroat, Chiffchaff & Blackcap. Two Little Egret in the river with a few Med Gull moving west and small numbers of Sandwich Tern feeding offshore.

Grey Heron golf course

Green Woodpecker Atherington

Reed Warbler camp site rife

2 Little-ringed Plover on the Pool at Marsh Farm this morning, along with c.75 Herring Gull & 2 Lesser BB Gull.

Lyminster this afternoon, with 2 Greylag Geese, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Lapwing, 2 Grey Partridge, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Buzzard, and good numbers of Reed warbler, Reed Bunting, Skylark, and Linnet  with a couple of Sedge Warbler.

 Yet another mooch around the patch, this time the western edge, with the highlight being a Hobby north of the paddock. A Coal Tit and single Wheatear around Poole Place, also 2 Ringed Plover, and 2 Little Egret Climping Beach. Very quite offshore, with just 8 Great-crested Grebe, 6 Med Gull and a Sandwich Tern west.

Wheatear west of Poole Place

Med Gull Climping Beach

Still a lot of birds in song especially around the golf course, unfortunately nothing unexpected.

Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Whitethroat - 12

Blackcap - 16

Chiffchaff - 6

Reed Warber - 13

Sedge Warbler - 3

Cetti's Warbler - 1 hrd

Bullfinch - 1

Jay - 1

Song Thrush - 2

Swift - 2

Swallow - 15

Stock Dove - 6

Green Woodpecker - 3

Kingfisher - 1

Grey Heron - 1

Little Egret - 1

Med Gull - 1

Lessser BB Gull - 2

Fulmar - 1W

Sandwich Tern - 1W

Great-crested Grebe - 1 os

Ringed Plover - 2

Lesser Whitethroat

Meadow Pipit

Song Thrush

Jay

Turtle Dove

A nice surprise in store for (OM) this morning, when a Turtle Dove alighted from the ground at Elmer and flew east over Poole Place

 21/5/21 - Elmer Rocks (0715-1015hrs): Sea-watching from a sheltered spot was the only option this morning. It wasn’t great, but a few birds of interest (OM)

Fulmar – 1W
Gannet – 2E, 20W
Manx Shearwater – 4W (1 & 3; the latter flock lingering a bit, giving reasonable scope views)
Grey Plover – 4W
Sandwich Tern – 1E, 1W
House Martin – 2N
Swallow – 1N
 

20/5/21: Elmer Rocks: I did a couple of hours sea-watching whilst also checking the beach, producing a close-in pale morph Arctic Skua, 18 Common Scoters and a late R/b Merganser east and 3 Fulmars west, plus about 20 Gannets and a Sandwich Tern offshore. My highlight though was finding a nesting Ringed Plover with 3 eggs – on the area where all the heavy machinery was stored during the sea-defence works last year – but also right in the middle of a dog-walking area so the odds must be against it surviving. Time will tell for these hardy little birds.