A lovely sunny morning where my first stop was at SS Lane finding; 3 jackdaws, 2 magpies, 2 swans, 1 heron, 1 cormorant, 4 swallows, starlings and wood pigeons. Moving to the seafront I saw a common sandpiper, new for the year, 190 ringed plovers on the beach, 1 Sandwich tern, 2 common terns and 5 grt blk bk gulls. On the plots, 4 whitethroat, 2 goldfinches, 4 blue tits, 1 cetti's, 1 great spot wd pker, 1 lesser whitethroat, 1 marsh harrier, first one seen for a couple of months. At the LNR a large flock of 130 goldfinches, the largest I have seen for sometime (3-400 a few years ago). Along the wall 3 wheatears, 9 egrets flying west and perhaps a corn bunting, I didn't get a good view before it was off. Also 14 sparrows, a large flock oystercatchers in front of the chalets, 12 common gulls and a clouded yellow.
The other bit of interest was the small plane that did an emergency landing on the fields towards C. Coote, everyone got out ok I believe.
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