22nd April 2018

Gerald, Nigel, Phil, Jack and I were out this morning but it was a couple of visiting birders that found a Wryneck in the Paddock. This is an almost exclusively autumnal bird for us and rounds off a pretty good week. Needless to say we couldn't relocate it, a bit of a theme here!

Also recorded were a Red Kite, 25 Swallows, a House Martin, seven Yellow Wagtails, a Blue-headed Wagtail, two White Wagtails, a 'Greenland' Wheatear, a Siskin, 46 Linnets and 42 Chaffinches, the finches flying SW into the breeze.

On the sea we didn't manage to have any of the skuas seen past Dungeness, the light was pretty terrible, but we did see nine Mute Swans (scarce here), two Whimbrels, nine Shelducks and four Brent Geese all moving NE.

Blue-headed Wagtail (Richard Heading)