The Gann

From Mark Cherry - Redshank on the lagoon and got my first sighting of summer-plumage Dunlin (30). A Grey Heron flew in but landed out of sight. Curlew (1) and Shelduck (pair) at the stream; a buzzard soaring above the dead trees by Gann farm was joined by a second bird, rusty coloured in bright sunshine but with pale wing undersides.

Returning to the car via the tide-line, instead of the ridge, paid off with my first alba Wagtail since ~2010, between me and the sea-wall, with Whitethroat and Dunnock in the gorse and shrubs along the ridge for company. Swallows (4+) were flying low over the same gravel bank, next to the sea wall, closer to the car park. A Whimbrel called as it took off from the beach, last seen heading NNE. I kept checking the bay but no sign of the hoped-for diver.