Rye Harbour NR - cold, dry and sunny, NW 3 - Pat joined us for a circular walk around the Beach Reserve this morning where the willow scrub either side of the track adjacent to Narrow Pit was alive with singing Chiffchaffs (c20), several Cetti`s Warblers and a couple of Linnets. Ternery Pool held good numbers of common wildfowl, gulls and waders including 10 each of Shelduck, Avocet and Redshank, 50 Oystercatchers and two each of Sandwich Tern and Mediterranean Gull. However, most activity was on Flat Beach with 200 Black-headed Gulls, 10 Mediterranean Gulls, 120 Sandwich Terns, 150 Golden Plovers, 35 Avocets, 20 Lapwings, 20 Dunlins, four Barwits and two Curlews. Also noted along the way: Little Grebe, Meadow Pipits and Skylarks, Little Egrets, Shovelers, Teals and several Ringed Plovers. A very pleasant morning capped off by my first Swallow sighting of the year flying over the river and heading inland.
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