Plodding around

No sign of any Waxwings in the garden or on my way to Dungeness this morning. I arrived at the car park by the power station at c07.50 in a snow storm and after a cup of tea started sea watching from the hide with AJG and SO at 08.30- 10.00:

Red-throated Diver: 42E

Gannet: c50E

Shag: 2E   species no.150 for me on the marsh this year.

Brent Goose: c100E

Common Scoter: 14E

Eider: 4E (3 drakes)

Merlin: 1 in

Sparrowhawk: 1 in

Grey Plover: 3E

Curlew: 4E

Knot: 3E

Bar-tailed Godwit: 2E

Oystercatcher: 3E

Auks: c50E

Bonxie: 1E

Sandwich Tern: 5E

Meadow Pipit: c30 in

Common Seal: 1 off shore

Harbour Porpoise: 2+ off shore

A wander around The Point found of note, 1 Wheatear, 1 Black Redstart, a Raven, a Peregrine and a Stoat.
At the south end of the ARC little of note, 2 Great White Egrets on New Diggings.
A wander up the track to the pines and back saw a Bittern, another Great White Egret, another Black Redstart , 2+ Common Snipe and a Green Woodpecker.
Round the reserve it is still very quiet, another Great White Egret, 3 flight views of Bitterns and a few Ringed Plovers, Dunlin and Redshanks on the flooded hayfields. Though 2 Garganey have since been reported and photographed.

From Dengemarsh Road c400mts south of Springfield Bridge a muddy puddle in the arable field held a Little Ringed Plover which showed very well. Further down in the Gully another Black Redstart, 2 Chiffchaffs, a Song Thrush and a Green Woodpecker.