Yesterday afternoon and again this morning the excellent Pallid Swift found by Chris Philpott was zooming around New Romney. Although it did show well the light was appalling due to the fog, making obtaining images extremely difficult, as you can see the images that were obtained were awful.
Pallid Swift
Pallid Swift
Pallid Swift
Pallid Swift
Early morning Redwings at the research station
Early morning at The point 100s of Redwings, with smaller numbers of Fieldfare, Blackbirds and Meadow Pipits arrived and were seemingly everywhere. The Lighthouse garden held lots of Goldcrests, at least 2 Firecrests and Chiffchaffs, most the birds seem to move on quickly.
Chiffchaff looking for insects
Meadow Pipit with a ring
Redwing on the beach this afternoon
Early afternoon the reserve was again quiet, the 6 Cattle Egrets were still at Boulderwall and 3 red head Smew were reported though not seen by any of the locals. Mid afternoon at the fishing boats after a call from MH telling me that more Thrushes were coming, saw Redwings, Fieldfare and Blackbirds hopping around the beach. The longer I sat in the car watching them foraging on the beach, more flocks were dropping out of the fog onto the shingle and rough grass behind the fishing boats, as the light faded many of the Redwing were dropping in and promptly going to sleep on the shingle something I have not seen before, I guess that they had been flying around out at sea in the fog and were exhausted. c400 Redwing and 70 Fieldfare were involved but just a couple of Blackbirds and Skylarks.
Fieldfare at the puddles at the fishing boats
Redwings bathing in the puddles at the fishing boats late this afternoon
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