Nice bright chilly morning with the WNW wind picking up late morning.

Wigeon - 9w

Gannet - 16w

Med Gull - c75

Auk sp - 5e

Brent Geese - 6w

Kingfisher - 1

Little Egret - 2

Chiffchaff - 8

Cetti's Warbler - 1 hrd

Reed Bunting - 4

Yellowhammer - 7

Stonechat - 8

Skylark - 35

Meadow Pipits - 30

Pied Wagtail - 21

Jay - 1

Kestrel - 4

Sparrowhawk - 2

Red Kite - 1

Buzzard - 1

Great- spotted Woodpecker - 3

Green Woodpecker - 2

Swallow - 8

Red Kite

 Very quiet this morning with very little moving offshore.

Little Egret - 7

Sandwich Tern - 2w

Med Gull - 2

Golden Plover - 1w

Kingfisher - 1

Turnstone - 4

Meadow Pipit - c90

Skylark - 40

Wheatear - 2

Stonechat - 4

Chiffchaff - 13

Blackcap - 3

Pied Wagtail - 7

Siskin - 8

Linnet - 15

Goldfinch - 11

Long-tailed Tit - 13

Swallow - 9

Jay - 4

Kestrel - 4

Buzzard - 1

Kingfisher Climping Beach

Little Egret

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Green Woodpecker - 3

Teal - 1

Gannet - 1w

Curlew - 1e

Grey Plover - 1

Grey Heron - 2

Little Egret - 3

Chiffchaff - 17

Siskin - 1

Goldcrest - 2

Stonechat - 2

Swallow - 60

Sparrowhawk - 1

Treecreeper - 1

Chiffchaff

On the golf course at 07:00 and by 07:30 bemoaning to myself the lack of anything of note to get excited about this autumn. But Yee of little faith, I should have trusted the birding goods who looked down on this poor soul wandering aimlessly around the fields and put in his path a new bird for the patch, one PALLID HARRIER. Combined totals below.

Dartford Warbler - 1
Stonechat - 14
Firecrest - 1
Goldcrest - 3
Chiffchaff - 23
Blackcap - 13
Cetti's Warbler - 3
Meadow Pipit - c250
Skylark - c37
Yellowhammer - 11
Reed Bunting - 15
Linnet - c75
Goldfinch - c30
Pied Wagtail - 8

Grey Wagtail - 1
Kestrel - 4
Sparrowhawk - 2
Buzzard - 2
Merlin - 1 (HR)
Jay - 5
Song Thrush - 15
Egyptian Geese - 4w over camp site

Grey Heron - 1

Little Egret - 4

Swallow - c100

House Martin - c50

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 3

Green Woodpecker - 3

Curlew - 1