Chilly start and initially quiet around the bushes on the golf course early morning, but plenty of birds moving with a couple of Crossbill heard overhead and 6 summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwit went east. No sign of any Flycatchers today but a Redstart in the camp site was a nice surprise.

Willow Warbler - 18

Chiffchaff - 3

Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Whitethroat - 17

Blackcap - 15

Stonechat - 2

Wheatear - 7

Yellow Wagtail - 13

Reed Warbler - 1

Greenshank - hrd

Oystercatcher - 9

Whimbrel - 2

Turnstone - 16w

Ringed Plover - 2w

Redshank - 1

Med Gull - c150+

Sandwich Tern - 4w

Gannet - 1e

Treecreeper - 1 Bailffs

Green Woodpecker - 4

Grey Heron - 1

Little Egret - 5

Red Kite - 1

Buzzard - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

Kestrel - 4

Swallow - c50

Sand Martin - 12

Wheatear setaside

Whimbrel golf course

Report of an Osprey and a RN Parakeet over Ford airfield this morning. (HR)

Good variety around the Climping/Atherington area this morning, and with rafts of Gulls offshore, the early warning signal paid dividends when they all alighted, producing an Osprey, tracking slowly west. 

Peregrine - 1 Cudlow field

Sparrowhawk - 1

Kestrel - 3

Buzzard - 5

Pied Fly - 1 

Spotted Fly - 2 - 3 

Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Whitethroat - 25

Blackcap - 11

Willow Warbler - 16

Chiffchaff - 4

Wheatear - 1

Reed Warbler - 2

Sedge Warbler - 2

Reed Bunting - 1

Goldfinch - 21

Greenfinch - 9

Linnet - 7

Long-tailed Tit - 11

Skylark - 5

Starling - 30

Green Woodpecker - 4

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Jay - 1

Swift - 1

Swallow - c50

Whimbrel - 1w

Curlew - 1w 1e

Turnstone - 3e 4w

Oystercatcher -18e

Little Egret - 6

Grey Heron - 1

Gannet  - 45

Med Gull - c400+

Common Gull - 4w 1e

Sandwich Tern - 2w

Pied Fly Bailliffscourt

Spot Fly Bailiffscourt

Sedge Warbler Bailliffscourt

 

Willow Warbler Mill Rd

Good numbers and variety around the patch this morning without anything of note.

Red Kite - 1 south ferry rd

Sparrowhawk - 1

Buzzard - 1

Kestrel - 3

Whitethroat - 23

Lesser Whitethroat - 3

Willow Warbler - 5

Chiffchaff - 1

Blackcap - 7

Reed Warbler - 11

Sedge Warbler - 2

Reed Bunting - 8

Linnet - 40

Starling - c200

Green Woodpecker - 3

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2

Jay - 1

Swallow - 30

Curlew - 2

Whimbrel - 3

Little Egret - 9

Grey Heron - 1

Oystercatcher - 1e

Gannet - 2w

Common Gull - 1

Med Gull - c200w

Sandwich Tern - 8w

Sparrowhawk golf course

Curlew

Whimbrel

Two Greenshank flew west at Climping Beach 12:20 19/08/26