GORING GAP: A juvenile
Bar-tailed Godwit arrived on the beach 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 two
Spotted Flycatchers were feeding in the northwest corner (one caught a Speckled Wood). Two
Wheatears were on the beach later but three
Whitethroats and a
Blackcap were the only other grounded migrants. Overhead movement included 25
Meadow Pipits, two
Yellow Wagtails, seven
Grey Wagtails, 22
House Martins, nine
Swallows and an adult
Lesser Black-backed Gull. The
Nuthatch was still in the northwest corner. A
Buzzard flew from the pond bushes, a
Skylark called from the fields and a
Coal Tit sang in the Plantation.
DKC/GDM
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| Whinchat DKC |
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| Ringed Plovers, including tundrae-type centre-left DKC |
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| Sandwich Terns DKC |
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| Spotted Flycatcher DKC |
