July 10th

It was a showery and breezy morning as we walked to Coldharbour and back and managing to get soaked. Birds we saw included 4 Pied Wagtails, 37 Linnets, 5 Whitethroats, 5 Swifts W, 64 Sand Martins feeding along the beach, 5 Little Egrets, 4 Ringed Plovers, 1 Kestrel, 2 Marsh Harriers and 10 Common Terns from Stodmarsh including 4 newly fledged young. We also recorded 6 Skylarks, 3 Great Black-backed Gulls, 1 Shelduck, 5 Oystercatchers, 5 Avocets, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Stonechat, 1 Grey Heron and 1 Chiffchaff.

Juvenile Common Terns

 Matt also found our first migrant Willow Warbler of the autumn in bushes south of the railway.