Spotted Flycatchers plus

Peter Lambert wrote today:

Blowy and gloomy walk round today, so pleasant surprise to see a spotted flycatcher flit in trees at NW of Stonebridge Wood – NW of Pond. Flushed a sedge warbler at N end of Wild Marsh West – one of those with pale crown stripe suggestive of aquatic warbler, but just a juv. (?) sedge. About 55 hirundines flew SW at 9.10am, too far away (and too gloomy) to identify. 2 meadow pipits SW across Clendish Marsh, which settled. 2 gadwall and 2 little egret in east channel at WMEast – seen from East Bridge. Kingfisher on post in west channel at WME too. Grey wagtail at WMW, in Pymmes Brook just north of Gasometer Bridge.

DMC