September 16th
On a sunny and cool morning we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and then on to the White Poplars. We counted 41 Chiffchaffs, 1 Green Woodpecker, 9 Blackcaps, 16 Long-tailed Tits, 14 Blue Tits, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 15 Chaffinches, 11 Mute Swans, 20 Mallard, 1 Golden Plover, 175 Linnets, 3 Kestrels, 7 Little Egrets, 2 Dunlin, 9 Sandwich Terns, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Swallows, 6 Ringed Plovers, 1 first winter Knot, 3 Redshank, 9 Goldfinches, 1 Kingfisher, 11 Pink-footed Geese W, 1 Wigeon and 5 Grey Partridges.
Coincidentally Landguard Bird Observatory, Suffolk had their first Pink-footed Geese fly over this morning. These were also a flock of 11, so it seems likely that they were the same as the Reculver birds with Landguard being only 39 miles to the north.

First year Knot

Five of the eleven Pink-footed Geese

Derek Smith was also out this morning and between 0630 and 1230 and walked from Shuart, along the railway embankment and returned via Plumpudding. He saw 34 Sandwich Terns W, 1 Kingfisher, 35 Swallows W, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroats, 70 Chiffchaffs, 35 Blackcaps, 3 Cetti's Warblers and 25 Goldcrests.