April 29th
On a dreary and overcast morning we met Matt at Chamber's Wall and walked to Coldharbour and on to the Oyster Farm. Birds we saw included 4 Mute Swans, 2 Shelduck, 16 Mallard, 2 Gadwall, 12 Cormorants,  1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 12 Oystercatchers, 6 Ringed Plovers, 18 Turnstone, 16 Bar-tailed Godwits 2 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1 Sandwich Tern, 1 Cuckoo, 5 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Wheatears, 1 Nightingale singing by the Thanet Way bridge,  1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling 400 metres E of the railway crossing, 6 Reed Warblers, 20 Sedge Warblers, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 11 Whitethroats, 2 Blackcaps and 2 Linnets.

Meadow Pipit