September 18th

On a bright and breezy morning we walked from Chamber's Wall to Coldharbour and saw 78 Linnets, 2 Blackcaps, 5 Chaffinches, 4 Cetti's Warblers, 6 Mute Swans, 3 Reed Warblers, 3 Robins, 7 Goldfinches and 4 Golden Plovers. We also counted 114 Mallard, 1 Stonechat, 6 Reed Buntings, 8 Redshank, 3 Mediterranean Gulls E, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Wigeon, 4 Dunlin, 25 Sandwich Terns in one flock sitting on the mussel beds before flying out to sea, 6 Oystercatchers, 68 Ringed Plovers, 38 Turnstone, 31 Sanderling, 1 Coot and 1 Merlin.

Newly fledged juvenile Woodpigeon