Mon 10th Aug 26

All the best bits happened just before I arrived and after I left, Two Ravens passed over the site early on for Richard & Mike but when they arrived at the hide it seemed quite quiet, until a Fox had a run around the scrape flushing everything out into the open and then it was waders everywhere. 

Photo Mike O:Hanlon©

From the hide: 2 Canada Geese, 10+ Mallard, 5 Teal, 62 Lapwing, 30+ Curlew, 12 Dunlin, 8 Green Sands, 6 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sands, 1 Wood Sand, 1 Blk T Godwit, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 70 Blk H Gulls, 3 Herring Gulls, 3 LBB Gulls, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel. PL/RJ/MO'H/MR.

 

Reports from today

Mike O'Hanlon

09:05 2 Ravens moving south high over Haven now.

12:26 2 Wheatears and a Whinchat along sea path just north of pillbox.

Photo Mike O:Hanlon©

Photo Mike O:Hanlon©

Richard Jeffree

09:39 Spotted Redshank and Wood Sand on scrape.

11:39 First Wheatear of the autumn on hay bales.

Pete Loud

14:02 Quick walk along the path to the raised platform this morning, 1 Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Lesser & Common Whitethroat. On the Scrape, plenty of waders on veiw, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Common & Green Sandpipers, Black-wit, Dunlin, Curlew & Whimbrel. Walk to Sunny Point and and back ,2 Wheatear,1 Whinchat & 1 Stonechat.

Brian Combes

15:01 Brief early visit to Haven: 1 coal tit (calling by cottages and eventually showing, presumably the bird I heard last week), 49 swallow (39 south mainly first thing), 2 swift (south), 2 blackcap, 10+ pied wag, 1 green woodpecker. 

Scrape/marsh: 7 green sandpiper (4 of these flew off south together), 3 common sandpiper, 10 dunlin, 3 snipe, 1 black-tailed godwit, 1 greenshank, 1 curlew, 1 little egret, 100+ starling, 1 Cetti’s (singing), 2 yellow wag. 

Dell: 5 greenfinch (6 in total), 4 whitethroat (1 in subsong), 2 lesser whitethroat (4 in total),

 

Sun 9th Aug 26

Pete Loud had the first Pied Flycatcher of the year on the bottom hedge of the carpark bushes first thing, unfortunately it was lost to view after a short while and could not be relocated.  

From the hide: 2 Canada Geese, 2 Greylag, 7 Mallard, 4 Teal, 2 Cormorant, 1 Lt. Egret, 66 Lapwing, 31 Curlew, 8 Whimbrel, 5 Green Sands, 4 Dunlin, 2 Common Sands, 2 Blk T Godwits, 1 LRP, 1 Wood Sand, 88 Blk H Gulls, 3 LBB Gulls, 3 Herring Gulls, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 10+ Swallows

Reports from today

Pete Loud

09:14 Pied Flycatcher bottom of orchard

Richard Jeffree

10:47 Wood Sandpiper scrape.

 

Sat 8th Aug 26

Reports from today

Brian Combes

08:58 Haven first thing: 1 garden warbler (dell), 1 coal tit (by sewage works’ gates), 1 corn bunting (over), 32 swallow (22 south), 1 grey heron (high south), 9 linnet, 20+ goldfinch, 6 reed warbler, 1 green woodpecker, 1 Cetti’s (singing), 1 grey wag.

Also in dell: 1 willow warbler, 3 blackcap, 3 whitethroat, 1 chiff (3 altogether), 2 lesser whitethroat, 2 greenfinch (4 altogether). 

Scrape/marsh: 3 little ringed plover, 4 green sandpiper, 3 snipe, 4 yellow wag, 8 dunlin, 1 black-tailed godwit, 3 common sandpiper, 2 teal, 10+ pied wag.

Richard Jeffree

11:10 Scrape mid morning 14 Dunlin, 5 Green, 2 Common sand, 2 LRP, 1 Greenshank, 1 Blackwit, 7 Whimbrel, 20+ Curlew, 70 BHG, 1 juv Med gull and a few House martins through.

 

Fri 7th Aug 26

Reports from today

Richard Jeffree

14:44 Haven this morning, quite around the bushes again with just a single Willow Warbler several Whitethroats and Lesser and a few Reed Warblers Scrape 21 Dunlin, 6 Green & 3 Common Sand's, 1 Greenshank, 1 LRP, 3 Snipe, 3 Whimbrel, 26+ Curlew, several Yellow Wagtail and a couple of Marsh Harrier.

 

Thurs 6th Aug 26

Reports from today

Pete Loud

12:38 A walk round the bushes was fairly quiet not much evidence of passage as yet, although Richard and I had a fine year tick with a Garden Warbler sunning itself in the hedge behind the sluice back of the sewage farm, also seen one each of Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Common & Lesser Whitethroat, circuit to Sunny Point and back along the seawall 3 Sandwich Terns & several Southern Migrant Hawkers, they seem quite established at the Haven now. From the Scrape hide, still plenty of waders on view, 4 Green Sands, 5 Common Sands, 4 LRP, 3 Black-wit, 12 Dunlin, 1 Greenshank, 4 Snipe, 1 Whimbrel & 30 Curlew, also seen several House & Sand Martins, 2 Swift, Cuckoo, Great spot Woodpecker and 2 Marsh Harrier.(RJ,PL).

Photo Richard Jeffree©

Brian Combes

16:48 Haven first thing: 11 swift (south), 26 swallow (south), 3 sand martin (south), 1 hobby (zipped through south, over the car park), 1 willow warbler, 1 reed warbler (passage), 3 lesser whitethroat, 4 yellow wag, 2 black-tailed godwit, 7 green sandpiper, 5 snipe, 9 dunlin, 5 curlew, 1 greenshank (heard), 1 mute swan, 6 greenfinch, 1 buzzard, 1 Cetti’s (singing), 15+ pied wag, 5 linnet, 20+ goldfinch, 2 green woodpecker, 60+ starling.

 

Wed 5th Aug 26

Just a short visit to the hide this morning showed still lots of waders.

From the hide: 18 Canada Geese, 2 Greylags, 10+ Mallard, 1 Teal, 20 Lapwing, 9 Dunlin, 8 Green Sands, 4+ Common Sands, 4 Snipe, 2 Blk T Godwit, 1 LRP, c100 Blk H Gulls, 1 LBB, 10+ Pied Wags, 3+ Yellow Wags,c30 Swift (heading south), Swallows & Sand Martins, Cetti's Warbler. RJ/MR

 

 

Tues 4th Aug 26

From the hide: 20+ Canada Geese, 2 Greylags, 10+ Mallard, 50 Lapwing, 30+ Curlew, 10 Dunlin, 5 Whimbrel, 5 Green Sands, 4 Common Sands, 4 Snipe, 3 LRP's, 1 Blk T Godwit, 87 Blk H Gulls, 3 LBB's, 3 Herring Gulls, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 20+ Pied Wags, 6 Yellow Wags, Linnets, Goldfinch, Swallows Sand and House Martins. RJ/BH/MR

Great to see juvenile Swallow, House Martin & Sand Martin sitting on the wires over the sluice on the way out.

Reports from today

Brian Combes

07:48 Garden Warbler - dell.

17:14 Haven first thing this morning: 1 garden warbler (first of the autumn for me), 1 hobby (flew north over carpark), 3 lesser whitethroat, 4 blackcap, 1 goldcrest, 1 great spotted woodpecker (juv in dell), 36+ swallow (31+ south including 20+ feeding over scrape/marsh that then drifted south), 7 greenfinch, 7 linnet, 30+ goldfinch, 10+ pied wag, 3 little ringed plover, 1 green sandpiper, 11 curlew, 2 snipe, 9 dunlin, 1 common sandpiper, 1 gadwall, 1 green woodpecker, 3 Chinese muntjac.