May 15th

Matt walked aroung Shuart, Netherhale and Brooksend this morning and saw 7 Blackcaps, 3 Ring-necked Parakeets, 3 Corn Buntings, 4 Cetti's Warblers, 4 Greylag Geese, 3 Little Egrets, 5 Tufted Duck, 4 Coot, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Grey Herons, 2 Stonechats, 12 Swallows, 19 Pied Wagtails and 2 Kestrels.

Dave Smith was also out at Shuart at 0430 and in 3 hours birds he saw included 26 Greylag Geese, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Turtle Dove, 1 Cuckoo, 2 Swifts, 5 Coot, 6 Oystercatchers, 2 Lapwings, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone, 3 Grey Herons, 4 Little Egrets, 2 Marsh Harriers, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 1 Sand Martin, 9 Swallows, 3 Chiffchaffs and 1 Yellow Wagtail.

This afternoon I had a walk at Reculver where I recorded 5 Blackcaps, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Pied Wagtails, 2 Chiffchaffs, 9 Long-tailed Tits, 22 Sand Martins, 2 Shelduck, 6 Tufted Duck, 1 Garden Warbler, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Whitethroats, 1 summer plumaged Dunlin, 8 Reed Warblers, 3 Great Crested Grebes and 1 Coot.

Summer plumaged Dunlin

Second summer Lesser Black-backed Gull