April 27th

On a cloudy and cooler morning Matt walked from Reculver to Chamber's Wall where we met and then we both walked up to Plumpudding and back again. Between us we counted 17 Cetti's Warblers, 6 Blackcaps, 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Ring Ouzel, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 1 Garden Warbler, 3 Greylag Geese, 5 Shelduck, 6 Great Crested Grebes, 4 Coot, 90 Corn Buntings, 2 Grey Partridges, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Little Egrets and 1 Fulmar flying along inland between the railway and Shuart Farm.We also saw 4 Stonechats, 13 Whimbrel, 4 Common Sandpipers, 6 Sanderling, 2 Marsh Harriers, 1 Snipe, 1 Kestrel, 7 Swallows, 11 Tufted Duck, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Lapwings, 4 Long-tailed Tits, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sandwich Terns, 2 Curlew, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Rock Pipit, 35 Sand Martins, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Grey Plover,18 Linnets, 6 Reed Warblers, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull and 17 Sedge Warblers.