Glorious weather, but very little around this morning with 2 Great-crested Grebe offshore, c40 Sandwich Tern east, and 2 Med Gull west. About a dozen Swift, mostly seen at the end of Climping Street, 25 Swallow tracking east with a single House Martin. Along a crowded beach 9 Ringed Plover with 3 Sanderling.

Sanderling Climping Beach

 

Stonechat West Beach

Yellowhammer Camp site

Southern Marsh Orchid

A Spotted Fly reported in first wood on the 20th by BS.

Not expecting that much during a mid-morning found the two LRP insitu, 3 Great-crested Grebe offshore, 12 Sanderling east and 2 Med Gull west and a couple of calling Cetti's Warbler around the beach, with still several each of calling Blackcap, Whitethroat and Chiffchaff.

 A mid-afternoon visit found no sign of the LRP in the set-aside with just a couple of House Martin over and a few Little Egret along the tide line, but the highlight being a Spotted Flycatcher around Atherington Pools my first of the year.

Spot Fly Atherington Pools

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