The Last Few Days!

Dungeness has been very quiet over the last few days, though a fair selection of waders have been making mostly short appearances, these included Spotted Redshank, Common Redshank, Greenshank,  Wood, Green and Common Sandpiper, Knot, Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Ruff, Little Ringed and Ringed Plover. A mobile Great White Egret and Garganey among the usual wildfowl, while overhead Yellow Wagtails Swifts, House and Sand Martins, have been trickling through and even a couple of Grey Wagtails.

The sea has been very quiet probably due to the fact that the power station is shut down and there is no Patch to speak of.

 1of 2 summer plumaged Knot at Firth Hide Tuesday evening

 Little Ringed Plovers have been showing well from Firth Hide lately

This Wood Pigeon was attracted by the trickle of running water from the solar pump in the Crow Trap this morning.

My first Boxworm Moth of the year on the 9th July

 The first of the Common Terns to fledge

 2 Sandwich terns dropped in for a few minutes

 Great-crested Grebe on its nest on Burrowes this evening

 A sleepy Garganey at Firth this evening

A flock of 18 Black-tailed Godwits that flew in over Burrowes this evening from the South East just before dusk then headed North towards the ARC.