A resident male Wheatear

After hearing from AJG the highlight of a 90 minute early morning sea watch which was 2 Hobby's I decided to walk down to the switching station where there were the resident Wheatears a few Linnets and Crows, not really worth the effort but if you don't look you wont find. A stop at The Patch on the way back found colour ringed Herring Gull K7LT which I first saw 18/11/2016, 7 Common Terns over the boil and a few Gannets feeding out at sea. A Greenland Wheatear came in off the sea as did 9 Swallows.

 Herring Gull K7LT not quite got the hang of mating

 Hairy Dragonfly

Mid morning around the trapping area found the resident Common and Lesser Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs but no new migrants. In the sheltered warmer spots a few Hairy Dragonfly's, a couple of Grizzled Skippers and many more Small Coppers. 

Grizzled Skipper

Early afternoon at Dengemarsh Gully absolutely no new migrants. From Springfield Bridge 2 Hobby's battling the near gale force northerly wind. On the reserve on Burrowes 4 Turnstones, 2 Curlew, 4 Dunlin, 2 Sanderling a Redshank and 40+ Common Terns.

At the ARC a 1s Little Gull and 2 more Hobby's. While I was in the screen hide I heard Gulls alarming behind me, I turned round to see a Spoonbill heading low towards Dengemarsh.