August 26th

On another blustery morning we walked from Chamber's Wall, along the raiway embankment and back via the Green Wall and Coldharbour. We saw 1 Grey Partridge, 7 Swallows, 6 Little Egrets, 4 Reed Warblers, 2 Whitethroats, 2 Coot, 6 Goldfinches, 41 Linnets, 18 Oystercatchers, 2 Grey Herons, 7 Sandwich Terns, 1 Common Sandpiper, 7 Turnstone, 1 Grey Plover, 3 Common Scoter, 1 Mallard, 22 Common Terns, 6 Redshank, 1 Dunlin, 2 Pied Wagtails, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 Osprey flying in off the sea at Coldharbour before flying south towards the Stour Valley and 1 Kestrel.

Marc Heath and Chris Tedder watched from the Towers between 0630 and 1015 and counted 2 Arctic Skuas W, 8 Common Scoter E, 33 Sandwich Terns E, 3 Little Egrets, 1 Shoveler W, 1 Turnstone, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit W, 98 Oystercatchers, 1 Sand Martin, 1 Snipe, 1 Dunlin, 13 "Commic" Terns E, 1 Osprey in off the sea at Coldharbour flying S and 3 Common Terns.