Saturday 24 August 2019

August 24th
We spent a warm morning ringing at our site on the Marsh south of the railway. During five hours we were there we saw 4 Willow Warblers, 25 Reed Warblers, 10 Sedge Warblers, 30 Whitethroats, 1 Green Woodpecker, 26 Linnets, 1 Tree Pipit W, 1 Jay, 1 Peregrine, 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 1 Kestrel, 11 Lesser Black-backed Gulls flying S, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 17 Goldfinches, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Common Buzzard and 1 Green Sandpiper.

Birds ringed 59: Willow Warbler 3, Wren 1, Sedge Warbler 6, Reed Warbler 17, Whitethroat 18, Linnet 3, Reed Bunting 5, Blue Tit 1, Goldfinch 1, Great Tit 1, Blackbird 2, Green Woodpecker 1.

Willow Warbler

Nick Hando was in Thanet this weekend with his family and visited Grenham Bay where he counted 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Sanderling, 50 Turnstone, 12 Ringed Plovers, 16 Curlew in off the sea, 4 Sandwich Terns and 1 juvenile Mediterranean Gull.
This evening Matt walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and saw 2 Pied Flycatchers, 1 Whinchat, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Whimbrel, 3 Yellow Wagtails and 10 Sandwich Terns.

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