Autumn is underway before even summer has truly got going but the first waders are on their way back from their Arctic breeding grounds with Wood, Green and Common Sandpipers bobbing around the edges, Whimbrel and Black-tailed Godwits from Iceland on the foreshore, the first Dunlin and Ruff (still on breeding finery) and a small group of Curlews that may have come from closer to home such as in the Brecklands of Suffolk and Norfolk.
A distant spangly Wood Sandpiper - Dante Shepherd
Bearded Tits are still obvious as are the Marsh Harriers and there have been more sightings of Med and Yellow-legged Gulls and non-breeding Hobbies.
Rather bizarrely it is the Egyptian Goose that has been getting quite a bit of attention as they are still a very scarce and difficult bird to pin down here!
Gypo - Lawrence Rogers
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer