I spent quite a bit of time overlooking the beach first thing this morning, where a juvenile
Bar-tailed Godwit flew in on the flowing tide - the first of the season. Numbers of other birds were low though, with six
Oystercatchers, 33
Little Egrets and two
Grey Herons. The high tide roost later contained 68
Ringed Plovers (including at least four
tundrae types) but only 19
Turnstones and two adult
Sanderlings, as well as 15
Sandwich Terns, three
Mediterranean Gulls, three
Common Gulls and a juvenile
Great Black-backed Gull. A
Whinchat showed well by the blocked road and I connected with one of Garry's two
Spotted Flycatchers in the northwest corner, witnessing it cough up a pellet and munch a Speckled Wood. Two
Wheatears were on the beach later but a
Whitethroat was the only other grounded migrant I saw. Overhead movement included 22
Meadow Pipits, two
Yellow Wagtails, seven
Grey Wagtails, 22
House Martins, four
Swallows and an adult
Lesser Black-backed Gull. A
Buzzard flew from the pond bushes, a
Skylark called from the fields and a
Coal Tit sang in the Plantation.
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| juvenile Bar-tailed Godwit |
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| Whinchat |
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| Ringed Plovers, including tundrae-type centre-left |
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| Sandwich Terns |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
