September 21st

On a glorious, late, autumn morning with very few people about we walked along the seawall from Reculver to the Wantsum outflow. Birds we saw included 6 Mediterranean Gulls, 2 Pied Wagtails, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit W, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Cetti's Warblers, 1 Redshank, 18 Cormorants, 2 Little Egrets, 33 Linnets, 6 Stonechats, 9 Meadow Pipits, 22 Reed Buntings, 2 Wheatears, 17 Golden Plovers, 2 Skylarks, 2 Grey Herons, 4 Mallard, 5 Sandwich Terns, 5 Chiffchaffs, 1 Ringed Plover, 16 Corn Buntings, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Goldfinches, 18 Swallows and 1 Green Woodpecker.

Nick Hando was out around lunchtime and walked at Brooksend and Shuart. He saw 1 Whinchat, 11 Clouded Yellow butterflies, 4 Wall Browns, 2 Painted ladies and 1 Hummingbird Hawk Moth.

Today I received the ringing information of a Chiffchaff we controlled at Reculver on September 18th. It had originally been ringed, nine days before on the 9th September at Portland Bill, Dorset by the Portland Bird Observatory and had flown 271 km ENE to reach Reculver.