Razorbills and Guillemots
A bit of a theme at the moment for the first couple of hours of daylight at the fishing boats, 1,000s of Auks streaming out of Lade Bay with smaller numbers of Gannets and Kittiwakes, Sandwich Terns, Red-throated Divers etc, by 09.00 passage has more or less stopped.
At the ARC this morning Goldcrests and Chiffchaffs in the bushes and at least 2 Kingfishers around Hanson Hide, several Great White Egrets were present also a single Grey Plover among the usual wildfowl.
Black-necked Grebe
Another cycle ride out to and around the Scotney complex, saw a single Green Sandpiper on the Eastern Pit, Black-necked Grebe again in the SE corner of the main pit, the sward only had the feral geese after 2 Marsh Harriers had flushed everything else. Carrying on to Camber was generally disappointing as all the Golden Plover were out in the fields towards the wind turbines. Cycling out towards the wind turbines I managed to get fairly close to the Golden Plover flock that contained c1500 birds, scanning through them I located 3 Ruff, but could not pick out an American Golden Plover, though it was probably with them, I blame the Merlin, Sparrowhawks, Common Buzzards and Marsh Harriers for continually spooking the Plovers. Coming back towards Lydd along the the back of the lakes I relocated the 2 Whooper Swans in the same place I found them a few days ago.
Whooper Swans
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