Good coverage which  produced a good variety in the patch this morning with good numbers of the commoner migrants moving through the area.

Firecrest - 2
Tree Pipit - 1
Redstart - 6+
Whinchat - 3
Stonechat - 2
Spotted Flycatcher - 2
Wheatear - 6
Garden Warbler - 4
Chiffchaff - c.75+
Willow Warbler - 40
Yellow Wagtail - c.80
Grey Wagtail - 1
Pied Wagtail - 3
Blackcap - 45
Goldcrest - 4
Whitethroat - 31
Lesser Whitethroat - 2
Reed Warbler - 1
Sedge Warbler - 1
Reed Bunting - 1
Meadow Pipit - 95
Linnet - 30
Swallow - 35
House Martin - 7
Sand Martin - 8
Song Thrush - 2
Kingfisher - 2
Knot - 1
Oystercatcher - 5
Curlew - 1
Peregrine - 1
Sparrowhawk - 2
Kestrel - 2
Buzzard - 4
Little Owl - 1
Grey Partridge - 5
Jay - 3
Great-spotted Woodpecker - 3
Green Woodpecker - 2
Mediterranean Gull - 18
Sandwich Tern - 5w
Grey Heron - 3

Kingfisher Climping Beach

Records for yesterday the 8th, a wet walk this morning along the river from the Ship+Anchor to the woodyard south of the prison. Too windy and wet for any passerines and nothing special but a few things about. (MD)

Curlew   1

Common Sandpipers   2

Oystercatcher   1

Mediterranean Gulls      42

Common Gulls  12

Black-headed Gulls         c250

Herring Gulls      c220

Little Egret          8

Grey Heron        3

Little Grebe        1

Cormorant          2

Records for the 7th Sept . A hot mid-day walk between Ship and Anchor and the marina today. All the passerines hunkered down from the heat.

Yellow-legged Gull 2 including 1 ad

Lesser Black-backed Gull  5

Great Black-backed Gull   2

Common Gull   2

Mediterranean Gull    5+

Black-headed Gull    740

Herring Gull      780

Common Sandpiper   9

Oystercatcher    14 (all below Marina)

Buzzard    1

Swallow   18

House Martin   10

Mute Swan   6

Little Egret   2

Grey Heron   3

Records for Wed 6th Sept Chris & Juliet

Quick visit to your patch late a.m to early p.m so quiet time of day really. List below of sightings.

Yellow Wagtail - c.150 In ploughed field by the woods all put up by a marauding Sparrowhawk
Chiffchaff - 3
Willow Warbler - 1
Blackcap - 3
Whitethroat - 2
Wheatear - 1
Grey Partridge - 3
Grey Heron - 2

Kestrel - 2
Buzzard - 2
Sparrowhawk - 1
Swallow - c.50
Sandwich Tern - 2
Med Gull - 2
Lesser Whitethroat - 1
Pied Wagtail - 3

Meadow Pipits - c.6

Peregrine - 2

Weasels- 4