March 23rd

On another beautiful morning I walked from Chamber's Wall to the Oyster Farm lagoons and it was relatively quiet with the only summer visitor a Chiffchaff singing at the car park. Other birds I saw included 1 Sparrowhawk, 8 Chaffinches, 12 Mute Swans, 16 Mallard, 4 Song Thrushes, 5 Cetti's Warblers, 3 Kestrels, 4 Coot, 53 Corn Buntings, 5 Redshank, 1 Snipe, 6 Oystercatchers, 1 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 1 Curlew, 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls flying E and calling, 4 Ringed Plovers, 14 Linnets, 1 male rubicola type Stonechat, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Green Woodpecker and 1 Little Egret.

As we left the house after lunch an adult Red Kite flew W over our house. At Reculver we saw 1 Black Redstart, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay, 1 Common Buzzard, 4 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Coot, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Mallard, 2 Cetti's Warblers and 2 Green Sandpipers.