March 7th
On another beautiful sunny, morning we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and then visited Reculver and saw a good range of species. We recorded 65 Cormorants, 10 Mute Swans, 25 Chaffinches, 14 Yellowhammers, 28 Corn Buntings, 44 Fieldfares feeding in maize stubble fields, 6 Lapwings, 16 Linnets, 14 Reed Buntings, 2 Shelduck, 25 Mallard, 5 Redshank, 1 Little Egret, 21 Oystercatchers, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull E at Coldharbour, 12 Curlew, 4 Grey Partridges, 1 ring-tailed Hen Harrier hunting over the fields at Chamber's Wall, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Great Crested Grebe and 5 Tufted Ducks.

Male Reed Bunting

Derek Smith was also out this morning and spent two hours at Shuart where he saw 7 Common Buzzards, including a flock of 5 birds, 2 pairs of displaying Lapwings, 1 singing Chiffchaff and 2 singing Cetti's Warblers.

This evening I received information concerning a male Lesser Redpoll we ringed at Shuart on 9th October 2015. It was controlled at Brandon, Norfolk, 341 km NNW, on 4th March 2017.