Jack daw, wood pigeon, collared dove, sedge warbler,cuckoo, skylark, green woodpecker, kestrel, shelduck, great crested grebe, coot, chaffinch, mallard, goldfinch, grey lag and canada geese, nightingale, oystercatcher, avocet, meadow pipet, redshank, lapwing, swallow, swift, cormorant, starling, little egret, stonechat, linnet, little grebe, common tern, turtle dove, black headed gull, lesser black backed gull and great back blacked gull. An excellent morning walk around the pools which provided some great watching as usual. My thanks to warren and danny.
I visited Higham and Cliffe pools on monday 31st of may with my brother in law mark. It was nice to hear the nightingales singing at cliffe again as I have not heard them for several years. In addition to to most of the birds that you saw Elliott we saw 1 reed bunting ,a pair of peregrine falcons flying over from Higham, a spotted flycatcher sitting on the telephone wires, 4 commic terns flying up the thames. Also of interest there was a seal swimming up the thames close to shore. The other highlight of an overcast but generally fine day was when a spitfire accompanied by a moderner plane which I did not recognize flew over in the afternoon, probably on its way to Dunkirk.