Pectoral Sandpiper!

 A walk around The Desert, Trapping area and Long Pits found of note plenty of Chiffchaff and Blackcaps, smaller numbers of Common and Lesser Whitethroat, a single Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Wheatears, 9 Stonechats, 6+ Reed Buntings and 2 Great-spotted Woodpeckers. A Peregrine was on the pylons.

Pectoral Sandpiper from Hanson (Heavily cropped image)

News from CT of Pectoral Sandpiper at the ARC was very welcome, I was soon there watching it feed but always distant. Also there Greenshank, 4 Ruff the usual flock of Golden Plover, 5 Black-tailed godwits, 2 Bat-tailed Godwits, 6 Garganey and the usual wildfowl.

6 Garganey

 1 of 2 Spotted Flycatchers at The Pines

 1 of 2 Spotted Flycatchers at The Pines

1 of 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker behind the screen hide

These 2 B-2 monsters flew over Dungeness while I was in Hanson Hide, awesome machines

This image tells you all you need to know about this afternoons sea watch, at least Jacques and Owen were catching Mackerel.

 As I walked to Firth Hide just before dusk I flushed 6 Great White Egrets and 4 Little Egrets from the Dipping Pool. When i got into the hide DW had a 1st calendar year Caspian Gull X86C lined up for me, but it soon departed.

1st calendar year Caspian Gull X86C at Firth this evening