April 9th
The fantastic spring weather continues. We arrived at Chamber's Wall and walked along the railway embankment and then on to Coldharbour and the Oyster Farm lagoons. We saw a good range of species including 3 Blackcaps, 18 Linnets, 3 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 4 Chiffchaffs, 13 migrant Song Thrushes, 9 Sedge Warblers, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 71 Carrion Crows, 3 Mute Swans, 14 Mallard, 14 Redshank, 1 Grey Plover, 34 Oystercatchers, 1 Avocet W and then back E, 8 Turnstone, 1 Curlew, 1 White Wagtail, 1 Great Northern Diver feeding offshore, 1 male Wheatear, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Little Ringed Plover in one of the lagoons and then flying W calling, 2 Little Egrets, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 2 Shelduck, 1 Lesser Whitethroat (140th) our equal earliest with 1988 and 2014, 6 Ringed Plovers, 5 Goldfinches, 1 Goldcrest and 1 Yellowhammer.

Avocet

Derek Smith was also out this morning and between 0700 and 1100 walked from Shuart along the railway embankment to Coldharbour and back along the seawall. He saw 1 Fulmar W, 4 Curlew, 18 Oystercatchers, 48 Sanderling, 2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Common Buzzards, 1 Swallow, 1 male Wheatear, 14 Chiffchaffs, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Whitethroat (141st), 4 Blackcaps, 18 Sedge Warblers and 7 Cetti's Warblers.
Also this morning Chris Sear saw a male Ring Ouzel (142nd) at Plumpudding as well as 3 Cetti's Warblers.
This afternoon over our garden at Bishopstone we had 10 Swallows and 20 Sand Martins flying over and later an adult Mediterranean Gull calling loudly.