PLODDINGBIRDER

 Goosander, a terrible pic of todays bird scarce on sea watches at Dungeness. A cold, damp, dark and dreary day started with a quick...

 Late Swallow at Scotney! A very murky morning started with the Cattle Egrets sitting on the roof of the cow shed viewed from my balco...

A glorious November day and I spent most of it gardening. A tweet from SM that 2 Cattle Egrets were just 200yds away from me, had me runni...

This mornings sea watch carried on where yesterdays finished, very slow. DW and BM for an hour between 08.05-09.05. Gadwall: 5 on sea?...

07.45-08.45 from near the fishing boats:  Common Scoter: 3 W Red-breasted Merganser: 1 W Red-throated Diver: 9 W Gannet: 11 W Ki...

Looking out at another Gloomy but windless day while eating a full English, I decided I'd have long wander around the fields at the bac...

I joined AJG this morning for a very poor sea watch after half an hour we'd had enough: 07.50-08.20  Shelduck: 1 W Red-throated ...

After scraping the ice off the windscreen for the first time this winter, I drove to the fishing boats arriving the same time as AJG where...

After a lay in I arrived at the fishing boats as AJG and BM were leaving, I quickly joined them when they told me how little they had seen...

A 40 minute watch from the fishing boats this morning was very slow with 2 Great skuas the highlights. A wander around the boats and sea co...