August 9th
On a bright and breezy morning we walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and back round the Oyster Farm lagoons. Birds we saw included 6 Cormorants, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Little Egrets, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 2 Oystercatchers, 4 Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 Redshank, 1 Dunlin, 8 Whimbrel, 69 Sanderling, 4 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Cuckoo, 3 Swallows W, 9 Sand Martins W, 7 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Pied Wagtails, 4 Wheatear, 6 Whitethroat, 1 Chiffchaff and 10 Linnets.

Second year Mediterranean Gull, adult Black-headed Gulls and juvenile Herring Gull