Thursday, 23 May 2019

 I disturbed this Brown Hare early this morning along the estate road
 A very quiet morning around The point with virtually no new migrants apart from a handful of Swallows and a Mistle Thrush, though at least 2 Marsh Harriers flew out to sea towards France. At least 2 Peregrines were around the power station and a male Black Redstart was singing from high on the building. AJG did a very early morning sea watch but only saw the the summering flock of several hundred Common Scoter tooing and froing.
This Mistle Thrush was the only grounded migrant of note this morning around The Point
 House Martins at Littlestone
Late morning early afternoon I went along to Littlestone for another look at the Serin which was not showing or singing in the short time I was there. On the way I noticed some House Martins gathering mud from a puddle so decided to spend a little time watching and photographing them instead.
A Bee-eater flew over South View per DB, the same or another was reported over the ARC. 




A visit to the ARC this evening saw just a Cuckoo and 3 Marsh Harriers of note. On Burrowes a single Common Sandpiper, 15 Sanderling,  5 Dunlin and 6 Ringed Plover, also good numbers of Common Terns, so hopefully they will settle down to breed.

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