June 26th

We spent the morning on the Marsh south of the railway and saw 4 Whitethroats, 4 Common Terns flying south to the Stour Valley, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Kestrel, 1 Curlew, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 8 Sedge Warblers, 4 Reed Warblers, 8 Linnets, 1 Common Buzzard and 1 Blackcap. We sat beside an area that had a large patch of Red Clover and saw many bees including 1 Shrill Carder Bee, 2 Red-shanked Carder Bees and 2 Garden Bumblebees.

Birds ringed 23: Linnet 2, Sedge Warbler 5, Reed Warbler 2, Whitethroat 3, Great Tit 8, Blackcap 1, Dunnock 1, Blackbird 1.

Red-shanked Carder Bee

Garden Bumblebee