Pre-dawn cloud soon dispersed leaving a good sunny, calm spell early morning but it wasn’t too long before the wind started to pick up, bringing more cloud cover for a breezy, overcast afternoon; the morning’s highlight was a Roseate Tern which flew north close inshore at 06:00 while the main feature of the day was a good movement of 351 Brent Geese coming out of the river before angling north, heading for their breeding grounds in the far north – awesome to see some migration in action!
Other birds through the day comprised 2 Black Redstarts, a Blackcap, a Chaffinch, 3 Chiffchaffs, 18 Common Scoter north, 2 Common Terns, 2 Fulmars, 2 Gannets, an Avocet south (a Landguard tick!), a Kittiwake, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, a group of 16 Little Terns lingering off the beach, a Mediterranean Gull, 2 Peregrines hunting Pigeons over the river, 3 Sandwich Terns, 11 Swallows south, 2 Turnstone, 3 Wheatears, 2 Willow Warblers and a Shag which flew north close inshore – always scarce here.
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