A brilliant image of the Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in the trapping area today captured by James Dee and published here with his kind permission. Many thanks James.
You will need to turn your volume right up to hear 4 trills of the Eastern Bonelli's Warbler found in the trapping area this morning by James Dee, a brilliant find and much deserved due to all the time he spends scouring The Point looking for birds. It is the first Eastern Bonelli's Warbler to be found at Dungeness and quite possibly the first Kent record. Although the bird was singing more or less continuously for the several hours I was in the trapping area this morning, I only actually saw it 4 times and only once fairly well, but with no chance of photographing it, I'm sure the strong wind did not help. Fortunately James managed to get some images of it when he first discovered it.
Elsewhere on the peninsula was very quiet avian wise, there was a Ruff on Burrowes, also a few Dunlin and Ringed Plovers. The Red-footed Falcon appears to have gone as well as most of the Hobbys.
At the ARC there are now 3 sitting Avocets and 5 sitting Black-headed Gulls on the long back island viewed from Hanson.
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