Final totals from a productive hour or so at Manor Farm with Simon this
morning:
TURNSTONE 1 (yesterdays bird)
Dunlin 6 summer-plumaged adults
Ringed Plover
4
Common Sand 1
ARCTIC TERN 12 through east
Common Tern c15 or so
included 6-8 which may be potential breeders, and another c8 which passed
through east
Black-headed Gull 3 east
Common Gull 1 west
Swift 3
Red Kite
1
Hirundines: significant easterly passage of 250-300 birds, mostly House
Martins, with c60 Swallows & c40 Sand Martins (although the total for the
latter species can't exclude breeders)
Yellowhammer 1 east (only included
because it was a welcome patch tick!)
Rob Hill