A fantastic day at Rainham

A fantastic day on the reserve with a notable goose movement and a site tickfor me with an early morning Bittern71 Pink-footed Geese (66 east, 5 down although not found after landing), 2 Tundra Bean Geese that also dropped out of the 73 strong flock of geese, 22 Dark-bellied Brent Geese in four groups in the morning, 2 juvenile Glaucous Gulls on Wennington, Water Pipit, Woodcock, Bittern (0730), 3 Water Rails, 5 Cetti's Warblers, 30 Tufted Duck, 16 Pochard, Little Grebe, 10 Mute Swan, 3Peregrine, 4 Golden Plover, 45 Redshank, 24 Ringed Plover, 70 Black-tailed Godwit, 19 Curlew, 7 Rock Pipits, 12 Redwing, 2nd yr Caspian Gull (taking us to about 15 this month as this is the first 2nd year seen), 26 Yellow-legged Gulls (21ad 2 1styr, 3 2nd yr) (Howard Vaughan)