Freshwater Bay & Western Yar Valley - week beginning 1st October 2012

Monday - Showers in the morning; overcast with sunny intervals in the afternoon.
Tuesday - Heavy showers.
Wednesday - Generally overcast.
Thursday
Friday - Sunshine early on; overcast later...followed by persistent heavy rain.
Saturday - Cold first thing but warming up!
Sunday - Sunny first thing, overcast later. 

Mute Swan - (Family of 2 adults & 5 juveniles at Yarmouth; 2 adults including E5K at Causeway)

Canada Goose
Brent Goose (2 in Mill Pool - first of the Autumn that I've recorded here)
Eurasian Wigeon (12 at Kingfisher Bridge)
Eurasian Teal (173)
Mallard(36 male & 17 female)

Pheasant (67)
Little Grebe
Grey Heron
Little Egret
Gannet (1 at Freshwater Bay)
Cormorant (12 at Freshwater Bay)
Buzzard (2)
Kestrel (3)
Peregrine Falcon (Flying across estuary to dead oak opposite Kingfisher Bridge at dusk)
Water Rail
Moorhen
Coot
Oystercatcher
Ringed Plover
Grey Plover (3)
Lapwing  
Black-tailed Godwit (116)
Eurasian Curlew
Common Redshank

Greenshank (2) (3)
Turnstone
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull (6 in Freshwater Bay: 2 adult & 4 second-winter) 

Great Black-backed Gull

Herring Gull

Guillemot (Flying east-west at Freshwater Bay) (2 off Norton Spit)

Rock Dove
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Kingfisher (Male on Mill Copse Scrape)
Great Spotted Woodpecker 
Green Woodpecker
Magpie
Jay
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Blue Tit
Swallow
House Martin (Several with Swallows over Rofford Marsh)
Long-tailed Tit
Cetti's Warbler 
Sedge Warbler (Very neat individual at Station Pool) 
Willow Warbler
Chiff Chaff 
Blackcap (2 females)
Goldcrest
Spotted Flycatcher (2 in north-west corner of Rofford Marsh) 
Starling
Wren
Dunnock
Robin
Stonechat (Male & female at Station Pool) (Male & female in Mill scrub) (Male & female)
Blackbird
Song Thrush (Rofford Marsh - first one seen for quite a while on the patch!)
House Sparrow
Pied Wagtail

Rock Pipit (3 at Freshwater Bay)
Meadow Pipit
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Linnet (flock of about 30 birds)
Yellowhammer (Rofford Marsh: NEW RECORD FOR LIST - surprisingly uncommon here)
Reed Bunting (Female in Mill scrub hedge - 1st seen for some time) (2 - like buses now!)

72 species.