Burnham-on-Crouch 15:45 to 17:00, Mild, sunny, tide falling
1 Whimbrel (Overwintering bird still present in Wick Bay area on Crouch) 28 Avocet 1 Marsh Harrier (Male) 2 Water Rail (One Pannell's Brook, another in Riverside Park reedbed recently) 2 Kingfisher (Pannell's Brook) 82 Corn Bunting 6 Yellowhammer 20 Reed Bunting 20 Chaffinch 27 Linnet 18 Goldfinch 2 Greenfinch 2 Stonechat [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch 12:00 to 16:00, Walk to mouth of Roach and back. Sunny, mild but rain showers. High tide
28 Black-tailed Godwit 1350 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Mobile flocks) 23 Avocet (Burnham Wick) 6 Marsh Harrier 16 Meadow Pipit 4 Rock Pipit 22 Fieldfare (in one small bush by the seawall) 1 Hen Harrier (ringtail flew to Foulness) 3 Eider (females mouth of Roach) 50 Stock Dove 1 Stonechat 1 Water Pipit (Burnham Wick outfall) [Alan Shearring]

Burnham-on-Crouch 14:45 to 15:00, Cold and still, tide low
3 Eider (feeding on the Crouch near Royal Corinthians Yacht Club) [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch 14:30 to 16:00,
1 Marsh Harrier 7 Kestrel (3 Burnham, 4 more along Wallasea seawall) 1 Stonechat 25 Corn Bunting 2 Red-breasted Merganser (fem/imms on Crouch) 2 Grey Wagtail 2 Siskin [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch 11:00 to 16:00, Walk to mouth of Roach and back. High tide. Sunny and warm but fresh S wind. 2 common darters and a red admiral
1 Sparrowhawk (male) 3 Rock Pipit 450 Herring Gull 800 Lapwing 68 Dark-bellied Brent Goose 3 Little Egret 5 Marsh Harrier (male flew to Foulness and two females to Wallasea across the Crouch) 2 White-fronted Goose (flew in from the sea along Crouch then onto Foulness) 1 Rough-legged Buzzard (hunting by Great West Wick farm) 7 Stock Dove 800 Dunlin (as tide went out feeding on mud Burnham Wick outfall) [Alan Shearring]

Burnham-on-Crouch 12:45 to 12:45, Cloudy with blustery S wind.
1 Rough-legged Buzzard (Over the back garden mobbed by Carrion Crows, then flew NW) [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch 13:00 to 16:45,
1 Osprey (Cruising south over the Crouch at 16:43) 1 Shag (Imm off the Quay, roosting on pontoon) [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch 11:00 to 15:00, Walk to mouth of Roach and back. High tide 14.30, very breezy from the SW. Warm. 4 Clouded yellow
35 Swallow (heading into the wind) 75 Herring Gull 1 Whimbrel 1 Wheatear 2 Sand Martin 5 Common Tern 1 Common Sandpiper 3 Little Egret 1 Dunlin (roosting on fields with the ringed plover) 9 Ringed Plover (roosting on the fields) 1 Mediterranean Gull 1 Arctic Tern (juv) 1 Woodlark (disturbed from long grass on seawall flew off strongly east) 1 Merlin (male being chased by a crow) [Alan Shearring]

Burnham-on-Crouch 10:00 to 12:00, Warm with sunny spells after yesterday's rain. Clouded Yellow and Wall Brown at Burnham Wick.
5 Willow Warbler 4 Yellow Wagtail Swift (Local breeders have all cleared out in the past week) Mediterranean Gull [Steven Swaby]

Burnham-on-Crouch , 10:15 to 13:45, Walk to mouth of Roach. Tide coming in, sunny to start with then wind increasing and cold
6 Whooper Swan (Flew SW), 309 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 82 Shelduck, 31 Wigeon, 4 Common Scoter (Flew out towards the sea), 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Marsh Harrier (Male. Not a good raptor day), 275 Dunlin, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 69 Herring Gull, 50 Greenfinch, 20 Reed Bunting [Alan Shearring]