March 18th
This morning, at a very quiet Reculver Marshes, we walked from Chamber's Wall out to the sea avoiding direct contact with anyone else. Birds we saw included 8 Chiffchaffs, 7 Goldfinches, 2 Long-tailed Tits, 8 Skylarks, 12 Mallard, 3 Greylag Geese, 8 Corn Buntings, 2 Coot, 2 Ravens flying W along the coast and then back E inland, 4 Oystercatchers, 5 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 22 Turnstone, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 6 Ringed Plovers, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Linnets W, 2 Redshank and 1 little Egret.

Purple Sandpiper

Stephen Greenstreet found a Black Redstart on the rocks at Reculver.