Egrets!

First thing this morning at the ARC no sign of any wild swans roosting. The lake was very quiet in a bitter NE wind.

Things weren't much better at the fishing boats where a just a handful of Red-throated Divers and Gannets were recorded in a very cold 30 minute watch 

Cattle Egret Scotney still just in Kent 

At Scotney the 2 Cattle Egrets could be seen distantly following the digger, careful scanning of the Greylag flock eventually picked out the 2 Tundra Bean Geese heads down asleep as usual.The 3 Black-necked Grebes were huddled together under the northern bank as was the drake Scaup.

This afternoon from the screen hide a Bittern, Great White Egret, 2 Smew and Kingfisher.

Late afternoon 9 Great White Egrets, 2 Cattle Egrets and 14 Little Egrets came in to roost, also c1500 Starlings put on a superb flying display harassed by a Peregrine and a Sparrowhawk, before they dropped into roost.