April 12th

We had and excellent morning's birding and saw a good range of species including four new for the year. Matt walked from Reculver to Plumpudding and back along the railway embankment and I walked in from Chamber's Wall where we met and then walked back to Reculver together and then inland. Between us we counted 12 Cetti's Warblers, 7 Common Gulls, 4 Mediterranean Gulls, 5 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Curlew, 9 Shelduck, 11 Sedge Warblers, 2 Swallows, 2 Little Egrets, 1 Rock Pipit, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 1 Marsh Harrier, 7 Chiffchaffs, 5 Willow Warblers, 3 Wheatears, 1 Stonechat, 5 Whimbrel, 20 Mute Swans, 7 Blackcaps, 4 Song Thrushes, 2 Long-tailed Tits, 1 Lapwing, 6 Coot, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Nightingale singing briefly at Chamber's Wall (148th), 2 Tree Pipits flying over calling (149th), 6 Whitethroats (150th),  4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls,  1 Sand Martin, 25 Corn Buntings, 1 Kestrel, 1 Teal, 7 Sandwich Terns, 1 Green Sandpiper, 5 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Common Buzzards and 2 Reed Warblers (151st).

Little Ringed Plover with Shelduck - Matt Hindle