As I parked the bike up at Goring Gap this morning I heard a
Serin call. I expected it to turn out to be a flyover but I thought it was worth a quick scan through the
Goldfinches and
Greenfinches feeding on the greensward. Voila - there it was! A female
Serin. It showed very nicely for the next 20 minutes before vanishing. A female
Whinchat in the northwest corner was nice too and a yeartick (which the Serin wasn't!). A summer plumaged
Dunlin came right up to me on the beach, which was another memorable encounter. Other highlights included a
Fulmar, a
Wheatear, two
Swifts, 17
Turnstones, a
Willow Warbler, a busy pair of
Great Spotted Woodpeckers gathering food, a
Great Crested Grebe, seven
Sandwich Terns, two
Gannets, four
Oystercatchers, a
Little Egret, seven
Swallows, a
House Martin, five
Whitethroats and two
Mallards.
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| female Serin at Goring Gap |
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| female Whinchat at Goring Gap |
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| Dunlin at Goring Gap |
At home later there were three Swifts overhead and a Goldcrest singing next door was a new arrival.
