Elmer Rocks 07:30-10:30 Another sunny and spring-like day with a light to moderate but slightly chilly ESE wind and a cloudless blue sky. Another visit to the local beach – which will doubtless soon become a habit – but it came up trumps again with a flock of 4 Spoonbills heading east at 0840hrs followed fairly soon after by a flock of 6 Little Gulls. Log below…. (OM)

Gannet – 6os

Great Crested Grebe – 1E, 2os

Brent Goose – 59E

Common Scoter – 20E

Red-breasted Merganser – 6 os

Pintail – 2E

Buzzard – 1

Spoonbill – 4E came from way round to the west

Sandwich Tern -1E

Little Gull – 6E

Linnet -3E

Wheatear 1 flew into Poole Place from beach

Other commitments meant a late visit to the golf course.

Wheatear - 1

White Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 7

Chiffchaff - 6

Goldcrest - 1

Reed Bunting - 2

Linnet - c.60

Meadow Pipit - 15

Skylark - 9

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2

Water Rail - 1 hrd

Grey Heron - 1

Buzzard - 1

Kestrel - 1

White Wagtail

Stonechat

Meadow Pipit

Linnet

Pied Wagtail