A very distant Bittern on Dengemarsh this morning

Around the reserve today including the ARC 20+ Dunlin, 1+ Little Stint,  3 Golden Plover, 5 Ruff, 4+ Redshank, a Greenshank, 2+ Common Snipe, 8+ Little Ringed Plovers, 7+ Ringed Plovers, a Black-tailed Godwit, 200+ Lapwing, a Turnstone,  2 Great White Egrets, a Bittern, 5+ Marsh Harriers, several 100s each of Sand Martins and Swifts and much more all on a quiet day.

 Juvenile Sandwich Tern at the fishing boats this afternoon

 Grey Seal

14.15-16.00 from the fishing boats:

Common Scoter: 14 Down          31 up

Gannet: 70 down

Cormorant: 27 around

Dunlin: 2 down

Kittiwake: 11 down

Sandwich Tern: 73 down

Common tern: 32 down

Swift: 36 out

Harbour Porpoise: 2+

Grey Seal: 1

 Adult Little Stint with Dunlin from Firth this afternoon

 Adult Little Stint with Dunlin from Firth this afternoon

 Little Egret from Firth this afternoon

Little Owl Lydd Camp early evening