May 9th

After overnight rain it was overcast this morning as Matt walked from Reculver to Plumpudding and we walked in from Chamber's Wall and met him at Codlharbour before we all walked back to Reculver. Between us we saw 15 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 13 Tufted Duck, 34 Swallows W, 6 Yellow Wagtails, 2 Shelduck, 2 Cuckoos, 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Stonechats, 2 Common Gulls, 2 Common Terns, 5 Little Egrets, 1 second calendar year Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Dunlin, 1 Sandwich Tern, 3 Grey Herons, 10 Greylag Geese, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Turtle Dove, 8 Swifts W, 1 Rock Pipit, 2 Greenfinches and 1 Short-eared Owl.

Male Yellow Wagtail - Matt Hindle