September 24th
After yesterday's excitement we spent the morning ringing at Reculver where we saw 15 Chiffchaffs, 2 Snipe, 3 Grey Herons, 10 Long-tailed Tits, 45 Blackcaps, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Jays, 6 Mistle Thrushes, 2 Moorhens, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Little Egrets, 13 Mute Swans, 2 Kestrels, 14 Meadow Pipits and 5 Goldfinches.

Birds ringed 53: Goldcrest 1, Long-tailed Tit 5, Chiffchaff 7, Wren 1, Blackcap 36, Robin 1, Great Tit 1, Dunnock 1.

First year female Goldcrest

This afternoon we walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and counted 1 Guillemot W, 1 Great Skua, 1 Peregrine, 33 Mallard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Little Egrets, 24 Sandwich Terns, 2 Rock Pipits, the first of the autumn, 3 Stonechats, 2 Wheatears, 1 Turnstone, 1 female Pochard in Coldharbour, 1 Redshank, 2 Dunlin, 12 Linnets and 2 Grey Herons.

Female Pochard

Derek Smith was also birding between 0730 and 1300 and walked from Shuart along the railway embankment to Chamber's Wall and on to Coldharbour and Plumpudding. He saw 1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Kestrels, 8 Sandwich Terns, 35 Meadow Pipits, 42 Blackcaps, 88 Chiffchaffs, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 9 Siskins, 4 Stonechats and 7 Corn Buntings.
In addition to these sightings during the late afternoon he found a Leach's Petrel flying W close inshore at Plumpudding. 

Leach's Petrel - Derek Smith

Southern Hawker - Derek Smith

Today at Grenham Bay Terry Wilson recorded 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 11 Little Egrets, a colour-ringed Dunlin and 14 Sandwich Terns on the rocks.