11-0

Very quiet on a flat calm sea today, best being 4+ Harbour Porpoises. The flies around the hide were so numerous they made sea watching impossible. Walking back to the car I noticed and Emperor Dragonfly basking on the perimeter wall. 

 I was just climbing out of the car back home when I got the news of 2 Bee-eaters at The Point. Now the time it took DB to phone DW who then tweeted the news meant I must have been driving past as they came in off the sea B***** 11-0 to the Bee-eaters.
While at the Screen hide in the company of OL, SB and BP hoping the Bee-eaters would come our way, I got a call from CT telling me that a Honey Buzzard was flying around the old lighthouse, we quickly located a dot being mobbed by gulls. We drove down to Kerton road and obtained better views of the bird, then back to Boulderwall where the bird flew inland over us and over Plodland.

The Small Planet Boeing 737 photographed from Plodland

 I spent most the afternoon scanning out from Plodland for the arrival of the first of weekly flight to Italy from Lydd. It took me a little by surprise when it came in as it literally cme in directly over head the house. I have to say though that it was not as noisy the army helicopters that regularly put in an appearance. When it took off just over an hour later it flew directly over the fields between Boulderwall Farm and Plodland and although not overly intrusive, had a flock of Greylags or Canada Geese that regular fly around the fields been sucked into an engine???
While waiting for the plane I saw 2 Common Buzzards,3 Marsh Harriers, a minimum of 15 Hobby's, a Kestrel and 2 Sparrowhawks, along with the usual Little Egrets and Grey Herons coming and going to the heronry.

 This evenings plod around the hay fields found 2 drake Garganey on No3 and 2 Hobby's (25+ seen there early afternoon), at Dengemarsh a Bittern booming regularly and not so good 3 fox cubs beside Hay field 1.

1 of 3 by Hayfield 1