Very warm muggy morning found the first returning Wheatear in the setaside with 2 or 3 also  on west beach, 9 Willow Warbler around the patch and  5 Sand Martin moving west with c30 Swallow. 

Willow Warbler

Sandwich Tern Climping Beach

Oystercatcher golf course

Large amount of Gulls distantly offshore this morning with very little movement.

Curlew - 3w

Whimbrel - 1w

Dunlin - 5w

Med Gull - c150+ along beach

Sandwich Tern - 1w

Little Egret - 6

Grey Heron - 1

Swift - c200

Grey Seal - 2

Two Curlew moving west

Quiet again in a cloudy windless humid morning.

Whimbrel - 2w

Oystercatcher - 14w

Commic Tern - 4w

Sandwich Tern - 19w

Med Gull - c50

Little Egret - 5

Swift - c50

Swallow - 7

Yellowhammer - 2

Chiffchaff - 3

Blackcap - 3

Jay - 3

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2

Green Woodpecker - 2

Buzzard - 3

Kestrel - 2

 4 Juv Stonechat north of the golf course was the highlight this morning with a little variety although nothing inspiring.

Oystercatcher - 8

Lesser BB Gull - 1

Med Gull - 5w

Little Egret - 5

Sandwich Tern - 2e

Stonechat

Yellowhammer

Kestrel - 3

Buzzard - 1

Yellowhammer - 2

Sedge Warbler - 1

Reed Warbler - 9

Reed Bunting - 3

Skylark - 15

Whitethroat - 11

Swift - c50

Swallow - 1

Green Woodpecker - 3

Linnet - nc

Greenfinch - nc

Lesser BB Gull opposite golf club

A slow sunday morning although not surprising this time of year, c40 Med Gull on the beach.

L BB Gull

 

 Quiet morning in blustery conditions found several large Gulls moving west distantly offshore,  the highlight being a Little-ringed Plover along the shoreline from the west banked called and continued east along the beach.

Med Gulls - 17w 2n

Commic Tern - 2w

Oystercatcher - 12w 1e

Dunlin - 2

Ringed Plover - 1

Swift - 37w

Yellowhammer - 3

Reed Bunting -2

Whitethroat - 15

Reed Warbler - 12

Little Egret - 1

Kestrel - 1