Sunday 01 November 2026
2 Red-throated Diver, 4 Great Crested Grebe [Neil Chambers]
3 Cattle Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (ad male), 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, 4 Stonechat, 3 Song Thrush, 5 Linnet [Neil Chambers]
2 Cattle Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 3 Stonechat, 1 Corn Bunting [Bob Young]
2 Buzzard, 4 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler (singing), 1 Dartford Warbler (same place as yesterday, but typically elusive), 1 Chinese Muntjac [Neil Chambers]
2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker [Neil Chambers]
Saturday 31 October 2026
170 Little Egret (+, coming into roost in copse to east of Oxenham Farm), 2 Buzzard, 1 Barn Owl, 2 Stonechat, 3 Cetti's Warbler (singing) [Neil Chambers]
3 Cattle Egret (With cattle north of barns), 2 Great White Egret (Flew north ), 3 Marsh Harrier (On Potton), 2 Buzzard, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Stonechat (Pair - the male has a prominent unstreaked pale rump and large pale collar but otherwise seems like a normal Stonechat ), 1 Lapland Bunting (Showed well for a short time feeding along the edge of the Avocet pool before being flushed. Seen again very briefly in weedy area by the main fleet) [Steve Arlow]
1 Buzzard, 1 Dartford Warbler (Showing well in bushes along main road) [Lee Ebbs]
2 Egyptian Goose (pair), 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Skylark (flew SW), 2 Meadow Pipit (flew SW), 10 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Common Darter [Neil Chambers]
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Dartford Warbler (thanks Steve and Griggsy) [Bob Young]
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Green Sandpiper (Griggsy only), 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Stonechat, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Dartford Warbler (In bushes along road prior to reaching Ben’s Road), 1 Chinese Muntjac, 1 Clouded Yellow [Steve Arlow, Paul Griggs]
Friday 30 October 2026
1 Hummingbird Hawkmoth (in garden) [Steve Arlow]
Thursday 29 October 2026
2 Mistle Thrush (presumable a pair along Doggetts Chase just north of the pits) [Steve Arlow]
Wednesday 28 October 2026
1 Woodcock [Marc Outten]
1 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Grey Wagtail [Paul Griggs]
4 Song Thrush, 3 Redpoll [Marc Outten]
Tuesday 27 October 2026
1 Jack Snipe, 1 Tawny Owl (Calling towards Rookery Farm), 25 Skylark (c.), 1 Ring Ouzel (Same place, alarm calling.), 4 Reed Bunting, 1 Corn Bunting [Marc Outten]
1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Water Pipit (on the scrape from the hide), 1 Stonechat, 1 Cetti's Warbler (h) [Paul Griggs, Bob Young]
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler (h) [Paul Griggs, Bob Young]
Monday 26 October 2026
1 Woodlark (With Skylarks, calling ), 8 Skylark (Flushed from Pylon Field from excavation area), 15 Meadow Pipit (+), 1 Ring Ouzel (Female at ///drama.guilty.rats), 2 Song Thrush, 35 Corn Bunting [Marc Outten]
Sunday 25 October 2026
350 Shoveler (estimated count - very large number present), 5 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Little Gull (very showy 1st-winter close in to the eastern embankment; often just a few feet away dancing on the water) [Steve Arlow]
1 Brambling (female with Chaffinch in conifers past the past cottage), 5 Common Darter (still on the wing) [Steve Arlow]
1 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest (Bunker Wood) [Lee Ebbs]
Thursday 22 October 2026
1 Merlin (flew low from the downs over sea wall and across creek to Canvey marshes.) [Simon Watson]
4 Little Egret, 125 Pochard (c,PL), 3 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 19 Avocet, 15 Ringed Plover, 50 Golden Plover (c), 2 Grey Plover, 65 Lapwing (c ), 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Curlew (c), 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kingfisher (PL), 8 Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, 2 Stonechat (pair,PL), 3 Cetti's Warbler (h), 300 Starling (+), 2 Red Admiral [Jeff Kinnerman]
Wednesday 21 October 2026
4 Red-throated Diver, 13 Little Egret, 6 Common Scoter (1,5), 1 Avocet, 1 Ringed Plover, 250 Golden Plover (c), 10 Grey Plover, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Whimbrel, 7 Curlew, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kittiwake (juv), 1 Sandwich Tern, 2 Arctic Tern (juvs ), 1 Skylark, 1 Swallow (N), 2 Rock Pipit [Jeff Kinnerman]
3 Red-throated Diver, 10 Great Crested Grebe (+), 1 Gannet, 17 Ringed Plover, 420 Sanderling, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Little Gull, 2 Meadow Pipit [Marc Outten]
Tuesday 20 October 2026
1 Gannet, 32 Common Scoter, 1 Pomarine Skua (adult flew west), 2 Arctic Skua (adult east and juv. chasing gulls), 5 Little Gull (flew east), 1 Sterna sp., 2 Sandwich Tern, 2 Arctic Tern (juvs) [Neil Chambers]
4 Red-throated Diver, 10 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Gannet, 8 Little Egret, 65 Common Scoter, 1 Purple Sandpiper (on breakwater), 3 Mediterranean Gull, 3 Little Gull (2 ad, 1 imm), 1 Sabine's Gull (imm - nice find, Bob), 3 Kittiwake, 2 Sterna sp., 6 Sandwich Tern, 1 Common Tern, 1 Guillemot [Paul Griggs, Bob Young]
Monday 19 October 2026
2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Flew over garden) [Simon Watson]
1 Yellow-browed Warbler (heard a couple of times), 1 Clouded Yellow [Paul Griggs]
6 Ring-necked Parakeet (over and calling ) [Jeff Kinnerman]
2 Grey Wagtail [Paul Griggs]
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