Nice day at Tilbury & Rainham.

A nice few hours spent with Jimmy at  Tilbury Fort, the first birds  we see are two Grey Plovers sitting on posts in the water in front of us.
It was high tide so not anything on the foreshore to see, a shame that as we hoping to pick up a Yellow-legged Gull that was the target bird for the day, but out in the middle of the water we see 2,000 Avocets & many Shellduck also a pair of Stonechat popping about in the long grass in front of us, Corn Bunting are flying about,also Greenfinch & Chaffinch in good numbers.
We now head to Rainham just to have a quick look at the stone barges they are packed full of Black-tailed Godwits & Redshanks also three or four Dunling seen.
The Gulls had all headed over to the other side of the Thames so once again no Yellow- legged  Gull.
Silly that Jimmy & I still need this Gull for a year tick but it's not one that we really looked for until now, when we saw that it was missing from the year list.
A really nice few hours spent birding, on a rather nice day.

Grey Plover

A few of the Godwits