July 21st

After very heavy overnight rain, 37mm at Bishopstone, there was significant flooding this morning on the the road to Reculver. As the rain moved north we walked along the seawall at Reculver and counted 5 Great Black-backed Gulls, 21 Black-headed Gulls, 6 Cormorants, 3 Little Egrets, 2 Pied Wagtails, 1 Black Redstart on the rocks at the car park, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Whitethroats, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 10 Common Scoter, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Linnets, 3 Reed Warblers and 2 Sandwich Terns flying W.

As we got back to Reculver we met Matt who then walked along the seawall to Coldharbour. He counted 7 Common Sandpipers, 1 Curlew, 4 Little Egrets, 2 Grey Herons, 18 Ringed Plovers, 12 Oystercatchers, 4 Redshank, 4 Yellow Wagtails, 26 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Sandwich Tern, 300 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Common Terns, 20 Whimbrel, 1 Gannet, 21 Great Black-backed Gulls, 258 Swifts flying W, 1 Marsh Harrier and 5 Stonechats.

At about 1120 we had 60 Swifts flying west high over our garden a Bishopstone.