A pleasingly busy day, with a male Pied Flycatcher in Arndale this evening, a Tree Pipit and four Wheatears on Carr Naze, a Tree Pipit, a Ring Ouzel, a Fieldfare and a White Wagtail at Short Hedge, two Ring Ouzels, a Greenshank and two Grasshopper Warblers at the Tip, a Greenshank at the Dams, the Whinchat in the Rocket Pole Field, a continental robin in off at Carr Naze and a Garden Warbler in Church Ravine. On the sea, 27 Sandwich Terns and a Manx Shearwater went south, with two Great Northern Divers still in the bay.

Green Sandpiper, East Lea (Judith Henley)

Yesterday (23rd), saw Sedge and Garden Warblers at the Dams, a Whinchat in the Rocket Pole Field, two Grasshopper Warblers still at the Tip, two Green Sandpipers, a Common Snipe, a Common Sandpiper, a White, five Yellow, a Grey and 13 Pied Wagtails at East Lea, and a Greenshank at the Dams. 

Blackcap, Parish Wood (Mike Cole)