July 30th
This afternoon we walked from Reculver to Minnis Bay and counted 13 Common Terns, 1 Black Tern (168th*), 3 Gannets, 15 Little Egrets, 2 Grey Herons, 2 Shelduck, 8 Common Sandpipers, 8 Yellow Wagtails, 13 Sandwich Terns, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 27 Turnstone, 42 Ringed Plovers, 23 Oystercatchers, 8 Linnets, 7 Sanderling, 1 Redshank and 28 Whimbrel, We also saw 3 Painted Ladies and 1 Clouded Yellow.
This morning Marc Heath was out very early and walked to Coldharbour and recorded 20 Sand Martins, 15 Swifts, 1 Grey Heron, 8 Redshank, 6 Stock Doves, 2 Whitethroats, 17 Little Egrets, 5 Mallard, 1 Kestrel, 8 Yellow Wagtails, 20 Oystercatchers, 2 Turnstone, 3 Sandwich Terns, 6 Mediterranean Gulls, 6 Ringed Plovers and 3 Common Sandpipers.

* With the removal of Pine Bunting from the Reculver list the year total reverted to 167 but Black Tern brought it back to 168.