June 17th

After violent overnight thunder storms and over an inch of rain it was still raining this morning when we got up and so we didn't arrive at very humid Reculver until 0930. We walked from the Towers to Coldharbour and back and counted 4 Pied Wagtails, 1 Kestrel, 5 Whitethroats, 5 Little Egrets, 4 Shelduck,13 Mallard, 1 Redshank, 2 Sandwich Terns, 4 Oystercatchers, 4 Ringed Plovers, 1 Coot, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 Cuckoo, 23 Turnstone, 10 Meadow Pipits, 3 Swifts and 1 Green Sandpiper.

Male Pied Wagtail