A good few hours at Bawdsey Quay first thing produced some good birds highlighted by a Great White Egret which flew south down the coast and a Wood Sandpiper on the saltmarsh at high tide; other birds comprised 13 Barnacle Geese oddly roosting with gulls on the shingle islands at the river mouth, a Cuckoo, at least 9 Mediterranean Gulls (six juveniles), a Red Kite circling over the other side of the river, a Little Owl in old building and single Redstart and Willow Warbler with a good number of more locally bred Whitethroats, Lesser Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Reed Warblers.
There was little new at East Lane which was highlighted by a lovely, pristine, fresh juvenile Red Kite right over my head and a Common Sandpiper before a look at Hollesley RSPB produced a nice little array of waders including single Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and Greenshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Avocets and 4 Knot.
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