Sunday 13 May 2012

Sunny Dungeness

As the sea was flat calm and unproductive this morning (15 Common Scoter E, and c150 Common Terns off shore and at The Patch) I plodded along the front of the power station to c200yds short of Denge marsh Gully and back. Highlights were a newly arrived Chiffchaff , 4 Wheatears (3 singing, 2  Black Redstarts (1 singing), a pair of Ringed Plovers, a single Redshank on the beach and 2 Mediterranean Gulls loafing with the Herring Gulls in the sun.

 At the south end of the ARC Pit 1 drake Garganey and 3 Dunlin were the highlights there.
A very pleasant plod around Orlestone Forest this evening found at least a dozen Nightingales, several Garden Warblers, a Hobby and most of the usual woodland birds.

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