April 24th
On a cloudy but bright morning we walked from Chamber's Wall to the Oyster Farm lagoons and recorded 15 Linnets, 10 Goldfinches, 25 Whitethroats, 3 Blackcaps, 3 Cetti's Warblers, 4 Grey Herons, 6 Reed Buntings, 12 Sedge Warblers, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 17 Mallard, including a female with 6 young ducklings, 3 Mute Swans and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. From Coldharbour onwards we saw 17 Oystercatchers, 2 Turnstone, 1 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harriers, 6 Ringed Plovers, 1 Stonechat 1 Mediterranean Gull E, 1 Whimbrel, 5 Shelduck, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sandwich Terns, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Common Sandpipers, 18 Corn Buntings, 1 Greenshank, 2 Redshank and 1 Willow Warbler.

Meadow Pipit

A Red Kite flew W at Bishopstone this morning.