Friday 10 August 2018

August 10th
On a much cooler morning we walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and back. Birds we saw included 8 Sand Martins, 4 Pied Wagtails, 7 Wheatears, 6 Goldfinches, 70 House Sparrows, 7 Cormorants, 7 Redshank, 12 Little Egrets, 1 Kestrel, 68 Linnets, 3 Common Sandpipers, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Mallard, 15 Turnstone, 2 Oystercatchers, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Redshank (170th), 3 Reed Warblers, 32 Ringed Plovers, 3 Dunlin, 9 Sandwich Terns and 1 Green Woodpecker.

Adult Sandwich Terns

Derek Smith was also out between 0630 and 1030 and walked from Shuart and the embankment to Coldharbour and Plumpudding seeing 1 Peregrine, 1 Common Buzzard, 7 Dunlin, 12 Whimbrel, 4 Sanderling, 2 Curlews, 8 Turnstone, 1 Common Sandpiper, 18 Swifts S, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 45 Whitethroats, 30 Sedge Warblers, 40 Reed Warblers and 3 Willow Warblers.

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