ChiffchaffsY

Didn't make the sea watch this morning, but apparently I missed very little. In the lighthouse garden 6+ Chiffchaffs and 2 Blackcaps. Trapping in The moat caught at least 40+ Chiffchaffs, a Garden Warbler some Blackcaps and a Redstart. A wander around The Desert found a few more Chiffchaffs, 100+ Meadow Pipits and a few Hirundines trickling out.

At the ARC from Hanson 14 Dunlin, 4 Common Snipe, 100+ Golden Plover 150+ Lapwing a marsh harrier and the usual Wildfowl. The Willow Trail and Track to The Pines held another 40+ Chiffchaffs, a Firecrest, 10+ Blackcaps, 4+ Cetti's Warblers calling along with a Water Rail, 2 Marsh Harriers over and a Common Buzzard of note.

Yellow Wagtail

Mid afternoon at the fishing boats found the usual 2 Arctic Skua's chasing Sandwich Terns.
Late afternoon on the reserve still at least 5 Great White Egrets, 4 Black Necked Grebes, a Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Little Stints, 2 Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit and rising numbers of wildfowl. In the bushes at least another 10 Chiffchaffs calling along with another 3 Cetti's Warblers and a party of 7 Yellow Wagtails in the cattle field adjacent to Dengemarsh hide. No sign of the Glossy Ibis while I was there.