April 22nd

We had a change of scenery this morning and walked from Shuart to Plumpudding and Coldharbour and back by way of Chamber's Wall and Potten Street Road. We counted 2 Green Woodpeckers, 2 Ring-necked Parakeets, 5 Chiffchaffs, 5 Blackcaps, 8 Mallard, 8 Cetti's Warblers, 10 Whitethroats, 21 Mute Swans, 2 Grey Herons, 2 Reed Warblers, 16 Sedge Warblers, 12 Goldfinches, 37 Linnets, 1 Corn Buntings, 4 Sandwich Terns on the red buoy at Minnis Bay, 1 male Stonechat, 5 Oystercatchers, 2 Turnstone, 10 Redshank, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Swallow flying W, 1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 24 Chaffinches, 1 singing Goldcrest, 3 Common Buzzards, 15 Rooks' nests with young birds at Wade House and 1 Kestrel.

Roosting Redshank