Most of the days interest for the recording area came from overhead passage as a decent variety was recorded including two Ringed Plovers, two Whimbrel, a Dunlin, a Green Sandpiper and a Greenshank on the wader front otherwise a Hobby, a Marsh Harrier, two Common Buzzards, 28 Sand Martins, 66 Swallows, three Yellow Wagtails and another three Crossbills. This being the first day this autumn that Swallows have outnumbered Sand Martins, a sign that things are ticking along.
There was a handful of new arrivals with three Redstarts, a Whinchat, eight Wheatears, and a Spotted Flycatcher, otherwise numbers were mostly down on previous days with 11 Willow Warblers, two Chiffchaffs, four Sedge Warblers, just eight Reed Warblers, two Garden Warblers, nine Lesser Whitethroats and 46 Whitethroats. Not a migrant, but it was nice to have Collared Doves confirmed as successfully breeding in the recording area with two juveniles seen, not an annual occurrence here.
On the insect side of things, four Hummingbird Hawkmoths and a Clouded Yellow were logged, as well as the regular Lesser Emperor at the Long Pits.
The RSPB reserve held a juvenile Black Tern, three Greenshanks, four Turnstones, three Redshanks, eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard and a Black-necked Grebe - all of which on Burrowes Pit. Elsewhere, a Honey Buzzard was seen over New Romney heading towards Littlestone, a Nightingale was seen at Galloways and 22 Wheatears noted at Galloways.