This morning at Dengemarsh 100s of Swifts were hawking over the marshes with a few House Martins. A wander across the fields with AJG saw Yellow Wagtails that were collecting food for young as was a Corn Bunting, but there was no sign of last evenings Rose-coloured Starling. We then went along the public footpath across the reserve and found Bearded Tits, Reed Buntings the usual Warblers, Cuckoos and Marsh Harriers, a booming Bittern with Swifts sweeping low overhead the whole time. Out across the causeway which was again carpeted in Common Blue Damselflys, plenty of Common Terns could be seen on Burrowes but little else of note was seen there. Along Galloways a Hobby was noted.
Some of the 100s possibly 1,000s of Swifts that were feeding across the peninsular this morning
After a late breakfast following a call from OL I went back to Dengemarsh where a superb Swallowtail Butterfly had been found (by Ray O'Reilly I think).
Swallowtail
This afternoon I joined Graham Parry for some filthy twitching into the East Sussex, where we saw the stunning summer plumaged Snow Bunting that has spent the last couple of days on the sea wall at Pett opposite the pools. A beautiful bird but was being flushed frequently by the many walkers on the sea wall, on a number of occasions it very nearly became a road casualty as it flew low across the the road in front of cars.
Gorgeous summer plumaged male Snow Bunting
On our way home we visited Castle Water where a Black-winged Stilt was feeding in the shallows.
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