June 9th
The weather had improved overnight and it was a nice sunny morning as we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and back along the Green Wall. We recorded 6 Goldfinches, 16 Reed Warblers, 19 Skylarks, 16 Whitethroats, 5 Chaffinches, 3 Swifts, 2 Moorhens, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Swallows, 17 Linnets, 2 Coot, 7 Reed Buntings, 6 Meadow Pipits, 2 Shelduck, 1 Mute Swan, 6 Ringed Plovers, 1 Curlew, 4 Sedge Warblers, 2 Turnstone, 4 Oystercatchers, 2 Little Egrets, 1 Common Tern, 4 Stonechats, including a pair of "rubicola" birds feeding a second brood, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Green Woodpecker and 1 Blackcap.

A tatty male "rubicola" Stonechat at the end of the nesting season

Small Tortoiseshell