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.