21 August 2018

2 Mute Swans, 163 Greylags, 6 Mandarins, 4 Teal, 11 Tufteds, Little Egret, 32 Coots, as the morning warmed up small kettles of Common Buzzards took to the air with several obviously transient birds culminating in a group of twelve high overhead and south at around 1300. The highlight however was an adult female Honey Buzzard that took twenty minutes to go through south 1150-1210. Also 1 Sparrowhawk, a Hobby, a Common Sandpiper, ad Yellow-l-Gull, 69 BHGulls, 3 Common Gulls SW, 11 Chiffchaffs, 2 Willow Warblers, 9 Blackcaps, 6 Whitethroats , 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Willow Tits, 4 Yellow & 1 Grey Wagtail high south.