A busy few days with 3 visits made between Friday and the weekend before I return back to work on Monday and the return of weekend visits. Birds of note early Friday morning included 3 Greylag Geese, 1 Water Rail, 2 Coot, 1 Lapwing, c845 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestel, 2 Jay, 3 Skylark, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 1 Hawfinch briefly in trees at the church at 08:05, 7 Linnet and 2 Reed Bunting. With the sun finally out Saturday afternoon and the rain having stopped, I decided to see whether I could find the Hawfinch again and get some better views. I spent about an hour in the area checking all the tree tops until after I almost gave up, I scanned a tree and there was the Hawfinch. I took some initial distant shots and slowly moved forward. It seemed quite settled and stayed in the tree for c25 minutes preening and looking around. I was able to obtain some lovely views and take a few pleasing photos of this rare patch bird. 1 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest and 3 Greenfinch were also of note in the churchyard. I then moved on to Chislet Marshes where I scoped the area for a couple of hours hoping to get some raptors hunting towards dusk. Birds noted were 84 Lapwing, 509 Cormorant, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 male Hen Harrier hunting the area and sat in a field for a while, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 2 Raven, 70 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat and 2 Reed Bunting. 'Nocmig' recording Saturday night produced a flock of Brent Geese over at 19:57, 1 Oystercatcher (84) over at 21:27 plus Barn Owl, Little Owl and Grey Partridge.
Hawfinch
Oystercatcher
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