Sunday 24th July 2022

 A warm wind with southbound 9 Curlew, 8 Common Gull, 7 Oyk, 7 Whimbrel, 6 Black-headed Gull, 4 Barwit, 4 Sanderling, 3 Common Tern, 2 Dunlin, 2 Swift, Greenshank, Grey Plover, House martin & a Little Egret that cut inland over the observatory with northbound 7 Sandwich Tern. A begging juvenile Sandwich Tern following an adult is pleasing to see when one considers the doom & gloom stories from many of the colonies this year. On site single Chiffchaff & Nightingale.

Small Rufous lives around wetland areas only ordaining us with its presence on a handful of previous occasions. With the warm wind last might it probably had no intention of visiting a site that is slowly starting to look like a desert at the moment.

Ringing: 2 Linnet, 1 Goldfinch.