A super weekends birding at Dungeness with the undoubted highlight of the weekend sea watches was the was a Surf Scoter that came past with c1600 Common Scoter on Saturday not long after a Serin flew over the hide, also all 3 Divers, Arctic and Great Skua, 4 species of Tern and much more. Many thanks to the watchers at Beachy Head for alerting us that the Scoter was on its way.
On the land Black-winged Stilt, Hoopoe, Red-rumped Swallow, Bittern, Bearded Tits and the first rush of spring migrants.
This Black Redstart is singing every morning behind the sea watch hide
Female Black Redstart behind the hide
Black-winged Stilt
Black-winged Stilt
Great Crested Grebes doing the weed dance at Denge Marsh yesterday
Great Crested Grebes doing the weed dance
Great Crested Grebes doing the weed dance
Great Crested Grebes doing the weed dance
A Raven at Denge Marsh yesterday that had just finished bathing
Sedge Warbler at Dengemarsh yesterday, spring arrivals.
1 of at least 12 Yellow Wagtails at the Denge Marsh chicken sheds yesterday
Hoopoe in The Desert this morning
Record images of this afternoons Red-rumped Swallow at Denge Marsh
What a couple of days, just brilliant.
ReplyDeleteExcellent Martin, Any chance Purple Herons are still around? Roger
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