Birding on the beach has been quiet recently but last week saw a large movement of
Swifts moving east...the end of
their summer and always the earliest to depart for winter quarters. There was a
Chiffchaff on the beach this morning flitting amongst the bushes and obviously 'feeding up' in preparation for a southward journey.
Juvenile Starlings have been teaming up and forming quite large roaming flocks...here's just one bird...
Sandwich Terns are still very much in evidence, some with sizeable sand eels...
From the Spit hide I watched an agitated
Ringed Plover watching me...
She plumped up....
and then moved a little closer, sat down on a nest and started brooding...
Seems quite late in the season to start again!
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