June 30th
The wind had subsided a bit since yesterday but it was overcast this morning with a hint of rain in the air as we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour. Birds we recorded included 160 Swifts feeding low over the grass fields and moving west, 13 Reed Warblers, 12 Linnets, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 4 Goldfinches, 3 Chaffinches, 7 Whitethroats, 5 Skylarks, 5 Reed Buntings, 3 Sedge Warblers, 2 Swallows, 1 Coot, 4 Cetti's Warblers, 1 Little Egret, 6 Meadow Pipits, 2 Sandwich Terns, 4 Ringed Plovers, 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 5 Oystercatchers.

Adult Sandwich Tern

First summer Mediterranean Gull