Swifts!

From the seawatch hide this morning as expected very quiet with just a handful of Gannets and Common Terns feeding offshore, also 3 Great-crested Grebes and a Black Redstart singing behind the hide.

A walk around the trapping area and Long Pits with AJG found of note a Spotted Flycatcher, Willow warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, several Common Whitethroats and Reed Warblers, also another Black Redstart by Lloyds.

At the ARC 100s of Swifts, with smaller numbers of House Martins and Swallows, 5+ Hobby's, the usual Reed, Sedge and Cetti's Warblers, Common Whitethroats and 2 Lesser Whitethroats, also 2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Cuckoo's also a Garganey at the south end per DW.

Hobby at the ARC

 I disturbed this Fox from its midday slumber at the pines.

 A walk around the windswept reserve this afternoon saw, 100s more Swifts, 2 Sanderling, a Dunlin, a Turnstone, a Ring Plover and the local Oystercatchers all on Burrowes. Still at least 3 Lapwing chicks, a Redshank and dozens of feral geese in the hayfields, though No.3 is virtually dry. On Dengemarsh a pair of Herring Gulls have taken up residence on 1 of the Tern rafts with pairs of Common Gulls on the other 2, 3 Marsh Harriers were over the reed bed as were a couple more Hobby's. 

1 of at least 3 Lapwing chicks.