PLODDINGBIRDER

Early morning at the ARC 5 Garganey, Black-necked Grebe, Red-crested Pochard(female), 2 Water Rail, 6 Golden Plover, 4 Redshank, 3 Dunlin,...

First thing this morning at The Patch a juvenile Black Tern among c200 Common Terns, also at least 2 Arctic Terns, 100s of Black-headed Gu...

 Reed Warbler basking in the early morning sunshine 06.30 at the ARC, not a breath a wind made spotting the warblers in the sallows al...

Dungeness lighthouses as yet another thunderstorm rolls in off the channel I arrived at The Point at 07.20 in torrential rain to fi...

07.00 I arrived at The Point to find AJG, MH and BM already there. All of us thought the sea would produce the birds. After a couple of h...

I am sure I missed quite a few birds. The list below is only the birds I recorded. 07.15-10.20 & 14.00-16.00 from the fishing boats. ...

Early morning at The Patch loads of Gulls but disappointingly just 2 Black Terns of note. Off shore my first Arctic Skua of the Autumn mov...

 A quick look at the ARC as the light is always terrible in the mornings found the 4 Little Stints still present, 3 Green Sandpipers and...

With a little overnight rain and still drizzling first thing this morning as I drove to The Point, I had high hopes of there being lots of...

2 Hummingbird Hawk Moths on the perimeter wall as I made my way to The Patch. 3 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls among many Black-headed and H...