Halcyon

Three turnstones on the sea wall. Overhead some barnacle geese. A bush near the houses at Easton Bavents had robin, whitethroat, linnets and a sedge warbler this morning.

Vintage engines and a few cars to remind me of when I learnt to drive.

Tankers still off the coast with storm clouds behind.  Torrential rain around 3.00 AM, 0.3 inches. Martins still feeding over the sea and a juvenile stonechat near the sheep paddock The first comma of the year.

Lots of sand martins swooping over the sea, stocking up on insects prior to their long flight south. There seems to be more crude oil tankers at anchor off the coast, 3 visible this morning. A good year for whitethroat, one preening itself this morning in the early sun.

The black tailed godwit was back at the lagoon, also water rail showed themselves.  Three avocet were feeding, unfortunately the photos are on my computer which has now been taken to the Apple hospital. In the afternoon, an orange soldier beetle. And a female thick legged flower beetle. Sedge warblers still around but fewer swifts.

Today a few jellyfish were washed up. The cruise ship Boudicca visited Southwold And a rabbit looked on.

Yesterday there was a family of whitethroat in the bushes near the sheep paddock. At the same time a stonechat was sunning itself. And a sedge warbler. The thistles looked good with the early morning dew. A lone black tailed godwit was feeding in the lagoon

A pile of rubble has been removed from the cliff top at Easton Bavents.  Piping has been laid at the Boating Lakes in anticipation of a connection to the sea to allow topping up to begin.  The swans in the fields opposite are with their cygnets.  The Emden goose population seems have dropped from three to two.  An early arrival was a juvenile wheatear, the earliest we have seen in Southwold.