Wonderfully flat calm first thing with plenty of sunshine and a slowly increasing onshore breeze eventually bringing cloud and a few spots of rain by early evening; there was a good selection of birds heading south over the sea through the morning which comprised a Spotted Redshank – a Landguard tick and the first one here since 2015 which flew past with four Redshanks, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 5 Curlew, a Dunlin, 2 Grey Plover, 18 Oystercatchers, 4 Turnstone, 17 Whimbrel, 27 Common Scoter, 35 Teal and a 3 Pochard.
On the land, birds included the first Wheatear of the autumn, a Green Woodpecker which eventually found the Heligoland trap, 2 Sand Martins, 6 Swallows and 4 Barnacle Geese which flew north.
Green Woodpecker
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