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BIRD MEETING, WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE,
23TH SEPTEMBER, 1986
This was another very quiet meeting.
A passage of Starlings, 350-400, (feeding
voraciously on Elder), Linnets, 200-250,
and Meadow Pipits, 80-100, were not very
noteworthy. By the E.N.T. Reserve were
three Wheatears and a Whinchat.
The brackish water opposite the Reserve,
over the sea-wall, was, for the first time
in the writer's experience, wader-less.
At the tide line, 100+ Sanderling scurried
up and down the beach, avoiding the numerous
dogs. 25-30 Turnstones and a handful
of Oystercatchers completed the wader
picture, apart from a single Snipe put up
from the John Weston Reserve.
41 Species only were recorded, including
both Whitethroats and Great Spotted wood-
pecker.
MARTIN HENRY
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