August 8th
The lull before the storm! With thunder, lightning and gales forecast for the next couple of days this morning was warm and sunny as we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and along the railway embankment. We recorded 11 Goldfinches, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 13 Whitethroats, 19 Reed Warblers, 8 Linnets, 1 Kestrel, 3 Sedge Warblers, 4 Yellow Wagtails, 12 Common Terns, 5 Sandwich Terns, 3 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Common Sandpiper, 18 Meadow Pipits, 21 Swifts feeding over the fields, 1 Oystercatcher, 15 Ringed Plovers, 21 Turnstone, 1 Dunlin and 1 Green Woodpecker.

Speckled Wood at Chamber's Wall