Clear, sunny and warm first thing with a little, cooling NW breeze bringing an extended cloud belt at lunchtime which lasted through until mid-afternoon; a singing Marsh Warbler halfway up the reserve near The Butts pond from late morning was the day’s highlight, it was giving nice little bursts of song but I only glimpsed its head once.
Other birds comprised 7 Curlews heading south at sea and a dispersing juvenile Siskin giving an early autumn feel to proceedings along with a Black Redstart, a Chaffinch, 2 Common Terns, a Buzzard high over the docks, 3 Mediterranean Gulls, 2 Sandwich Terns and 5 Swallows.
A walk up the river from Felixstowe in the afternoon was quiet for birds but I did see my first ever Norfolk Hawker in one of the ditches just downstream from Kingsfleet.
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