August 1st

After yesterday's very hot weather today was more pleasant with warm sunshine and a cooling westerly breeze blowing as we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour. We saw 18 Linnets, 3 Kestrels, 3 Cetti's Warblers, 8 Goldfinches, 3 Reed Warblers, 5 Whitethroats, 7 Little Egrets, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Sedge Warblers, 1 Common Buzzard, 3 Oystercatchers, 1 Fulmar, 1 juvenile Yellow-legged Gull flying W, 20 Ringed Plovers, 8 Sandwich Terns, 2 Meadow Pipits, 2 Pied Wagtaiils, 7 Swallows flying W, 17 Sanderling, 18 Turnstone, 6 Whimbrel flying W, 3 Common Sandpipers, 1 Yellow Wagtail and 1 Chiffchaff.