May 20th
On a pleasant but ornithologically quiet morning we walked from Chamber's Wall to the Oyster Farm via Coldharbour. We saw 8 Long-tailed Tits, 2 Cuckoos, 10 Whitethroats, 2 Chiffchaffs, 3 Cetti's Warblers, 21 Mallard, 2 Mute Swans, 8 Oystercatchers, 3 Shelduck, 3 Redshank, 6 Ringed Plovers, 4 Little Egrets, 4 Blackcaps, 8 Swallows W, 2 Common Terns, 1 Kestrel, 3 Yellow Wagtails and 2 Lapwings.

Male and female Mute Swan