24th July - sunny and warm, 23C, cloudy and humidity increasing, light rain shower later afternoon., light

 Lilbourne meadows; evening

Two Green Sandpipers, 55 Lapwings and a Little Ringed Plover.

The pools are good for Moorhen, adults and juvs numbered 16 today.

£ Little Egrets and two Cormorants still.

DIRFT/A5 area

Although we have lost the pools area now it has been infilled and flattened ready for building on, the ground has become favourable for Gulls to gather pre-roost.

c300 Lesser Black Backed Gulls a few Herring and 7 + Yellow-legged Gull.