August 30th
With the Baird's Sandpiper departed we had the birding to ourselves at Reculver this morning. We walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and had a good range of species as well as some birds arriving and others migrating west. Birds we recorded included 132 Swallows W, 105 House Martins W, 6 Sand Martins W, 15 Wheatears, 1 Whinchat, 24 Yellow Wagtails, 27 Meadow Pipits, 8 Pied Wagtails, 11 Cormorants, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Common Sandpipers, 2 Kingfishers, 36 Linnets, 2 Greenshank, 9 Dunlin, 7 Redshank, 8 Little Egrets, 1 Green Sandpiper, 48 Ringed Plovers, 2 Turnstone, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Little Stints, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 8 Oystercatchers, 4 Sanderling, 1 Grey Heron and 1 Little Owl.

Little Stint