August 16th

The weather felt totally different this morning with a fresh, cool north westerly breeze blowing. We walked from Chamber's Wall to the Oyster Farm and then back around the Green Wall. Birds we saw included 3 Common Scoter, 26 Turnstone, 3 Sandwich Terns, 8 Whimbrel and 9 Grey Partridges, 2 adults and 7 young, at Chamber's Wall. We also saw 1 Common Buzzard, 6 Little Egrets, 23 Mallard, 16 Redshank, 52 Sanderling, 8 Dunlin, 14 Oystercatchers, 13 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Grey Plover, 25 Ringed Plovers, 1 second year Mediterranean Gull W, 2 Gannets W, 1 Fulmar W, 1 juvenile Little Gull E, 1 Wheatear, 1 Hobby, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Whitethroats ad 1 Kestrel.

Newly returned Sanderling