In typical mid Autumn skulky warbler weather, I went over to the caravan bushes at Reculver on the morning of Monday the 13th, in hope of seeing the reported Radde's Warbler. In a fine drizzle I stood with a few other birders but alas, the Radde's was either skulking deeper in the bushes than normal or the bird had moved on which is the more likely scenario. All was not lost as Matt Hindle unearthed a Yellow-browed Warbler which was my first of the Autumn. No photos that were good enough to show but one of many Goldcrest's was a lot more obliging than any of the visiting migrants.
I returned to Reculver, this time Chambers Wall, on Wednesday the 15th as a bird was reported there yesterday (14th). I found it, or one, in the bushes around the fisherman's car park and although the weather was just the same as previously, dull and overcast, I did manage a few record shots of the bird.
Along the eastern end of the area towards Minnis Bay, I had some success with a small Sanderling flock. Waiting behind one of the groynes, the dog walkers would continually flush the birds and they would fly past my vantage point.
Sanderling
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