GORING GAP: A short walk around the Gap was rewarded with an unexpected patch tick in the form of a showy male
Yellowhammer near the pumphouse. Other bits included three
Redwings, two
Red-breasted Mergansers, a
Pheasant, four
Great Crested Grebes, six
Turnstones, 98
Sanderlings, seven
Sandwich Terns, two
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, eight
Stock Doves, a
Green Woodpecker, a
Great Spotted Woodpecker, three
Skylarks, four
Chiffchaffs, three
Blackcaps, seven
Meadow Pipits and a
Pied Wagtail (not many of these lately).
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| male Yellowhammer |
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| Sanderlings |
