We first visited Rye Harbour and walked around the new flood and Ternery Pool. On our way to Icklesham
we called in and saw the Marsh Helleborines and then carried onto the flooded meadow at Icklesham:
Rye area
Eider 1st S drake saw on the sands the other side of the river
Oystercatcher c75
Avocet 25
Ringed Plover 6
Dunlin 4
Common Sandpiper 1
Redshank 40
Greenshank 1 adult
Black Tailed Godwit 1
Little Tern 25
Common & Sandwich Terns good numbers
Mediterranean Gull 10
Water Rail calling
Turtle Dove 3
Wheatear 1 juv.
Cetti's Warbler 1 singing
Marsh Helleborines c80
Icklesham flooded field
Little Ringed Plover 2 adults
Wood Sandpipers 2 adults (1 going out of s/p)
Green Sandpiper 7-8
Greenshank 1 adult
Common Terns at Rye
Sandwich Terns at Rye
Juvenile Mediterranean Gull at Rye
Little Egret and Greenshank at Rye
Marsh Helleborines
Green Sandpipers at Icklesham
Adult Wood Sandpiper at Icklesham
Adult Little Ringed Plover at Icklesham
