Wednesday 05 November 2025

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 07:30 to 11:30
1 Great White Egret, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 30 Avocet, 50 Grey Plover, 110 Dunlin, 4 Ruff, 3 Snipe, 116 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Curlew, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Water Pipit (on Great Pound.), 3 Stonechat, 1 Fieldfare, 13 Redwing, 3 Bearded Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit [Graham Ryland, Graham Oakes]

Tuesday 04 November 2025

Canvey Point, 11:15 to 12:15
3 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Grey Phalarope [Graham Oakes]

Canvey Point, 11:00 to 12:30
1 Grey Phalarope, 2 Mediterranean Gull [Bob Young]

Canvey Point, 10:30 to 11:30
1 Grey Phalarope [Graham Ryland]

Canvey Point, 09:45 to 10:55
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Grey Phalarope (a very obliging bird. Great find Terry.), 1 Rock Pipit [John Wright]

Canvey Point, 09:30 to 10:55
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Grey Phalarope (Showing incredibly well at times. Another phalarope found by Terry Blackwell! ), 1 Rock Pipit [Vince Kinsler]

Chalkwell Park Drive, Leigh, 01:00 to 02:00
1 Badger [John Wright]

Monday 03 November 2025

Prittle Brook (Leigh on Sea), 17:00 to 17:10
1 Common Pipistrelle [Angela Baldock]

South Fambridge, 15:00 to 15:00
1 Green Woodpecker (still present), 2 Stonechat (a pair along borrowdyke at bottom of garden) [Paul Baker]

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 07:45 to 11:00
1 Great White Egret, 1 Pink-footed Goose (from gate by barn. ), 1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Marsh Harrier (male.), 1 Kestrel, 22 Grey Plover, 40 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, 2 Snipe, 700 Black-tailed Godwit (+), 8 Curlew, 2 Greenshank, 2 Stonechat [Graham Ryland, Graham Oakes]

Sunday 02 November 2025

Rochford Golf Course, 12:05 to 16:15, Sunny, WNW wind
2 Egyptian Goose (pair), 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Skylark (flew SW calling), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Song Thrush (singing), 10 Siskin (2 groups flew SW), 2 Redpoll (flew SW calling) [Neil Chambers]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 12:00 to 13:30
1 Spoonbill, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 5 Stonechat [John Wright]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 11:35 to 15:00
1 Great White Egret, 1 Spoonbill, 1 Long-tailed Duck (still present), 3 Marsh Harrier, 1 Peregrine Falcon, 2 Greenshank, 5 Stonechat [Steve Arlow]

Saturday 01 November 2025

Gunners Park, 11:00 to 12:00
1 Stonechat, 4 Redwing, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Crossbill (Flew south over reserve, calling) [Lee Ebbs]

Canewdon, 10:30 to 13:30, Working on Butts Hill Pond
1 Green Sandpiper (Dropped in twice, a scarce visitor), 1 Grey Wagtail [Jeff Delve]

Thursday 30 October 2025

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 15:50 to 17:20, Clear, cool W breeze
1 Great White Egret (Reptile area), 1 Long-tailed Duck (Still in ditch N of Darwin), 2 Dunlin, 500 Black-tailed Godwit (+, Pool Marsh), 2 Greenshank, 50 Mediterranean Gull (+, In large mixed gull flock mostly Herring with Common and Black-headed.), 1 Short-eared Owl (Over reptile area at dusk), 1 Stonechat [Jeff Delve]

Gunners Park, 10:20 to 11:50
22 Little Grebe (On lake), 25 Great Crested Grebe (Offshore), 1 Water Rail (Calling from east end of lake), 1 Kingfisher, 5 Cetti's Warbler (Singing birds, 2 seen well in Bunker wood) [Jeff Delve]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 09:50 to 13:50
1 Long-tailed Duck (imm), 4 Marsh Harrier, 3 Kestrel, 20 Skylark (+), 2 Stonechat, 1 Raven (over, calling), 3 Corn Bunting, 1 Chinese Water Deer [Paul Griggs, Bob Young]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 09:40 to 14:00
1 Long-tailed Duck, 4 Marsh Harrier, 3 Kestrel, 4 Stonechat, 1 Raven, 1 Chinese Water Deer (Pool marsh), 5 Field Vole (all under the same reptile refuge) [John Wright]

Gunners Park, 07:25 to 09:55, Sunny, light SW wind
4 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Water Rail (calling from lake), 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20 Skylark, 20 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Stonechat (pair SE side of lake), 3 Cetti's Warbler (singing), 30 Chiffchaff, 460 Goldfinch (several small flocks of up to 20 birds heading SW), 5 Siskin (3 + 2 flew SW), 5 Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting [Neil Chambers]

Tuesday 28 October 2025

South Fambridge, 16:00 to 16:00
1 Marsh Harrier (adult male), 1 Red Admiral [Paul Baker]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 15:55 to 16:50
1 Long-tailed Duck (probably 1'w female, feeding in channel on north side of lagoons), 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, 1 Water Rail (calling from ditch by car park), 1 Rock Pipit, 1 Stonechat, 1 Corn Bunting [Neil Chambers]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 15:00 to 17:00
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel [John Wright]

Shoebury East Beach, 14:25 to 14:35
1 Kingfisher [John Wright]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 12:45 to 16:30, Light westerly, cool, mostly sunny
9 Little Grebe (in ditch with LtDuck), 2 Great White Egret (1 Hunting reptile area, another on Darwin. 3 reported earlier.), 1500 Greylag Goose (+, On Marsh Flats and Grapnells fields - spectacular when flushed by light aircraft over), 1000 Canada Goose (+), 2 Egyptian Goose (Pair near Marsh Flats cattle corral), 7 Pintail (from hide), 1 Long-tailed Duck (1st winter bird feeding in ditch north of Beagle lagoons, mostly near sluice from Darwin. Well found Ian Cotgrove), 2 Marsh Harrier (Nicely marked male and a female), 6 Kestrel, 1 Merlin (Marsh Flats), 120 Golden Plover (+, roosting from hide), 500 Black-tailed Godwit (+, Mostly Pool Marsh), 1 Spotted Redshank (Flew over office south calling), 5 Greenshank (+, Darwin), 1 Kingfisher (On favoured bramble along NS ditch to office), 4 Stonechat [Jeff Delve]

Chalkwell Park Drive, Leigh, 01:00 to 02:00
1 Badger [John Wright]

Monday 27 October 2025

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 11:00 to 13:00
2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Jack Snipe, 6 Snipe [Marc Outten]

River Roach, 07:25 to 13:00, Stambridge Road to Paglesham Lagoon via Bartonhall Creek and return via the river : Very challenging in the strong winds
4 Little Egret, 1 Pintail (m,PL), 65 Pochard (c,PL), 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel (incl pair at BC ), 1 Peregrine Falcon (PL), 50 Avocet (c), 100 Golden Plover (c), 3 Grey Plover, 22 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 350 Black-tailed Godwit (c), 5 Curlew, 1 Kingfisher (BC), 5 Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 2 Stonechat (pair,BC), 1 Cetti's Warbler (h,PL), 1 Goldcrest (conifers NW of BC) [Jeff Kinnerman]

Sunday 26 October 2025

South Fambridge, 15:00 to 15:00
13 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 1 Migrant Hawker [Paul Baker]

Gunners Park, 14:45 to 16:25, High tide, overcast, brisk SW wind
5 Red-throated Diver, 20 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Whooper Swan (2 ads + 2 juvs NW across estuary and then headed north over coastguards and high inland), 1 Kittiwake (adult), 1 Cetti's Warbler (singing), 1 Chiffchaff [Neil Chambers]

Shoebury East Beach, 14:25 to 14:40, High tide, brisk SW wind
1 Red-throated Diver, 1 Shag (imm distantly on boom), 1 Kingfisher (flew from pond and then west over the sea towards Gunners until lost to view) [Neil Chambers]

Bowers Downs, 13:10 to 13:30
1 Great White Egret, 6 Whooper Swan (family party on fields south of barn) [Neil Chambers]

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 12:00 to 13:30
1 Great White Egret, 6 Whooper Swan (4 juvenile), 1 Kestrel, 30 Avocet, 1 Grey Plover, 2 Ruff, 30 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Stonechat [Graham Oakes]

Hadleigh Downs, 11:30 to 13:00
1 Buzzard, 1 Goldcrest [Paul Griggs]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 11:20 to 14:20
3 Great White Egret (all hunting the Wild Bird Cover), 2 Egyptian Goose, 3 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine Falcon (male), 1 Kingfisher (possibly two), 2 Stonechat (pair) [Steve Arlow]

Leigh on Sea, 10:40 to 13:15
100 Little Egret (+), 4 Grey Heron, 4000 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (c.), 32 Fieldfare (west over Old Leigh) [Graham Mee]

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 09:45 to 11:00
6 Whooper Swan (2 ads, 4 imms on the grazing marsh), 1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Stonechat, 2 Fieldfare [John Wright]

Saturday 25 October 2025

Wat Tyler Country Park, 17:20 to 18:40
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Spotted Redshank (h), 3 Green Sandpiper [Tim Bourne]

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 16:15 to 18:00, cold and windy
4 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, 2 Greenshank, 1 Stonechat, 2 Chinese Water Deer [John Wright]

Paglesham Eastend, 15:30 to 16:00
1 Kestrel, 3 Rock Pipit, 57 Linnet (single flock), 5 Corn Bunting [John Wright]

Shoebury East Beach, 13:40 to 15:00
3 Red-throated Diver, 4 Gannet, 2 Shag, 1 Spotted Redshank (On The Boom), 327 Redshank, 60 Turnstone [Marc Outten]

Rochford Golf Course, 13:00 to 17:30, WNW wind, some cloud
2 Egyptian Goose (pair), 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Meadow Pipit (singles SW calling), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Peacock Butterfly [Neil Chambers]

Fleet Head, 11:25 to 13:00
6 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 7 Red-legged Partridge [Paul Griggs, Steve Arlow]

Wakering Stairs, 09:00 to 11:10
3 Little Egret, 1 Kestrel, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Stonechat, 2 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 80 Goldfinch (+ flying west in small groups), 50 Corn Bunting (+) [Paul Griggs, Steve Arlow]

Friday 24 October 2025

Bowers Marsh (RSPB), 08:00 to 12:30
4 Pintail, 1 Red Kite, 40 Avocet, 1 Ringed Plover, 5 Ruff, 100 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Skylark, 2 Stonechat [Graham Oakes]

Thursday 23 October 2025

Wallasea Island (RSPB), 15:15 to 17:00, Breezy westerly. Patchy cloud with sunny intervals
1000 Greylag Goose (+, With Canadas - and also more on Marsh Flats), 1500 Canada Goose (+, Feeding on field N of entry road late on and more on Marsh Flats), 1 Marsh Harrier, 150 Mediterranean Gull (+), 250 Herring Gull (+, Feeding with the goose flock), 1 Black Redstart (1st W bird around office compound), 1 Stonechat (around compound) [Jeff Delve]