Wed 15th April 20


Reports from today :


Max Martin

07:34 Farm this am: 3+ Corn Bunting, 1 Yellow Wagtail (flew over), 1 Cuckoo (Calling in distant Oak tree), 2 Adult Med gulls.


Pete Loud

15:02 Bike ride through site this morning. 
Golf Course, amazingly the 2 Ring Ouzels still in attendance, also 1 Wheatear & 2 Adult Med Gull. 2 Sedge Warblers in Reed bed by wooden Hide. Pair of Stonechat moth enclosure. Scrape 2 Reed, 3 Sedge & Cetti’s Warbler on view. 1 Female Wigeon, 4 Shoveler, 1 Drake Gadwall, 10 Teal usual Avocet & Redshank numbers, 4 Snipe, Whitethroat on mounds, with another over the road. 2 Purples on rocks by Sluice. Several Swallows about site, also Blackcaps & Chiffchaff. 4 Buzzard, 10 Curlew, then the long ride home. Several Small Whites noted today, still plenty of Peacocks.
Also 2 Ad Gannet & 1 Fulmar north offshore.


Paul Brayshaw

19:38 Seawall wall from Frinton to northern pillbox where overlapped with ML. Golf course 6 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel. Offshore 7 Turnstone north.  Matt will have a more complete list!


Matt Lonsdale

1943:  scrape- a Ruff,snipe, 2 blkwit, 20 avocet, 8 redshank, 2 shoveler, 10 teal.
Wooden hide- barn owl quartering + pair of stonechat.
Over the road- pair of oyk, lapwing and gadwall.
Pair of song thrush and a chiff in car park.
Also good to see brook level has been raised.