August 8th
With the threatened rain not materialising we walked along the seawall at Reculver and then inland. We saw 7 Mute Swans, 9 Shelduck, 4 Mallard, 5 Tufted Ducks, 1 Little Grebe, 15 Cormorants, 1 Fulmar, 3 Grey Herons, 7 Little Egrets,1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Common Buzzard,  6 Oystercatchers, 6 Ringed Plovers, 4 Turnstone, 1 Common Sandpiper, 15 Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 1 Dunlin, 11 Common Terns E, 5 Sandwich Terns E, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 300 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Turtle Doves, 2 Kingfishers, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 5 Pied Wagtails, 2 Long-tailed Tits, 1 Wheatear, 2 Whitethroats, 2 Willow Warblers, 4 Goldfinches and 6 Linnets. We also found a Brown Hawker inland.