We spent the morning ringing on the Marsh south of the railway line and saw 1 Chiffchaff, 13 Willow Warblers, 1 Tree Pipit W, 3 Tree Sparrows, 4 Mute Swans, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 Redshank, 1 Grey Heron, 9 Whitethroats, 5 Blackcaps, 12 Sedge Warblers, 6 Reed Warblers, 1 Jay, 3 Green Woodpeckers, 1 Little Egret, 6 Robins, 1 Snipe, 8 Swallows W, 1 Golden Plover, 3 Whinchats, 2 Kestrels, 1 Common Buzzard and 1 Cetti's Warbler.
As we arrived home a Coal Tit flew along our back hedge calling noisily.
Birds ringed 39: Willow Warbler 8, Wren 1, Sedge Warbler 7, Reed Warbler 4, Whitethroat 4, Reed Bunting 2, Blackcap 3, Robin 2, Great Tit 2, Blue Tit 2, Chaffinch 3, Dunnock 1.
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| Migrant Robin |
Nick Hando and family did not have much to report from Beltinge today birdwise, just 2Whimbrel W, 1 Little Egret, 2 Sandwich Terns, and 1 Coal Tit in the bushes by the beacon at Reculver Drive car park. Yesterday they had a Rock Pipit on the beach at Bishopstone.
They had more luck with the fossils today, finding 166 sharks teeth, a ray vertebra, a ray dental bar, several turtle bones and pieces of carapace, and a few fragments of chimaera jawbone. One of the sharks teeth is a monster-sized and perfectly preserved example of Striatolamia macrota.
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| Sharks tooth, ray vertebra and dental bar |
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