Sunday 6 May 2018

May 6th
It was another sunny morning but the warmth was tempered by a cool northerly breeze. We walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and the Oyster Farm and returned along the Green Wall and railway embankment and recorded 1 Kestrel, 24 Whitethroats, 2 Cuckoos, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Lapwing, 12 Linnets, 4 Swallows, 5 Shelduck, 1 Greenshank W, 7 Mallard, 4 Ringed Plovers, 25 Oystercatchers, 26 Turnstone, 2 Redshank, 1 Common Tern, 1 Little Egret, 2 Grey Partridges, 2 Blackcaps, 5 Goldfinches, 10 Reed Warblers and 8 Sedge Warblers.
Marc Heath was out early and heard a Wood Sandpiper (162nd) calling over the Oyster Farm lagoons.
On his early morning walk from Shuart to Plumpudding and the railway embankment Derek Smith saw 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Cuckoos, 1 Common Tern, 4 Sandwich Terns, 5 Yellow Wagtails, 2 Stonechats, 4 Blackcaps, 33 Whitethroats, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 29 Sedge Warblers, 34 Reed Warblers, 6 Chiffchaffs and 4 Cetti's Warblers.

Orange Tip - Derek Smith

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