Wednesday 1 May 2019

Wood Warbler!

As todays Wood Warbler was camera shy, this image was taken by me at Dungeness in 2012. 
A bit of lay in after a long day birding around The Somme estuary yesterday was cut short by calls from JTM & AJG with news of Wood Warbler singing in the trapping area, sadly now a very scarce bird here. While getting brief views of the bird I also saw my first Garden Warbler of the year and also my first Jay of the year on the peninsular. Apart from those 3 birds land birds were very few and far between. There are now apparently 4 Cattle Egrets in the hay fields and lots of Common Terns on Burrowes.
08.20-10.00 & 10.40-17.30 with AJG, OL, MH, JTM, RW, JC, DS, DC, Charles & Anna et al.
Common Scoter: 457E  4W
Red-throated Diver: 8E
Black-throated Diver: 1E
Red-breasted Merganser: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 53 around
Fulmar: 6E   4W
Gannet: 75E. 26W
Cormorant: 27 around
Oystercatcher: 9E   2W
Grey Plover: 1W
Whimbrel: 509E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 684E
Knot: 1E
Little Gull: 6E
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Kittiwake: 5E
Black Tern: 8E
Little Tern: 2E
Sandwich Tern: 276E
Common Tern: 65E
Commic Tern: 859E
Great Skua: 1E
Pomarine Skua: 3E
Arctic Skua: 12E
Auk sp: 5E. 4W
Swallow: 11 in
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 16+

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