August 1st

Derek Smith spent the three hours from 0530 walking from Shuart to Plumpudding and Chamber's Wall and got soaked! Birds he recorded included 14 Greylag Geese, 8 Little Egrets, 2 Common Terns E, 4 Sandwich Terns E, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrels, 46 Turnstone, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Greenshank, 6 Whimbrel, 1 Snipe, 3 Swallows, 3 Jays, 4 Cetti's Warblers, 30 Reed Warblers, 18 Sedge Warblers, 1 Blackcap and 1 Willow Warbler.