Sunday, 13 April 2025

12-13/04/2025

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

The Black-winged Stilt that turned up on Hayfield 1 Saturday morning and ai still present this evening
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

2 comments:

  1. What a couple of days, just brilliant.

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  2. Excellent Martin, Any chance Purple Herons are still around? Roger

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