Willow Warbler new for the year

An overcast day to start with but clearing up and becoming very sunny later, a singing Willow Warbler in the copse was the only addition to the year list. Apart from a rise in Tufted Duck numbers from 43 to 51 and two Greylag Geese on Bow Creek wildfowl numbers were almost identical to yesterday's count. At least four pairs of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and three pairs of Herring Gulls were also at Bow Creek and around 120 large gulls, mostly Lesser Black-backeds, were loafing on the Millennium Dome mudflats along with a dozen Black-headed Gulls. Sand Martin numbers had risen to four and at least seven Blackcaps were singing along with single Reed Warbler and Song Thrush. A Little Ringed Plover was song-flighting over the Pura Foods peninsula and I flushed another one from Bow Creek, two Common Sandpipers were also at Bow Creek and finally a female Peregrine was watched soaring above the Millennium Dome, much to the indifference of the assembled larids on the mudflats below.