The Black-winged Stilt still doing its thing in front of Hanson hide
Once again there was very little on the sea early this morning, c40 Gannets were feeding a mile off shore presumably on a Mackerel shoal, also there a few each of Common Terns and Sandwich Terns, along with some Kittiwakes that all appeared to be catching White Bait, they joined by up to 10 Harbour Porpoises and a Grey Seal. In shore a single Great-crested Grebe and a few Cormorants. The Gull roost is getting nearer to Dengemarsh every day as hordes of anglers with there families descend on Dungeness in the hope of catching Mackerel or Bass.
The trapping area was very quiet with the highlight being 2 fly over Crossbills, a few Willow Warblers in the Sallows with Common and Lesser Whitethroats and a couple of singing Blackcaps.
This evening at the ARC the Stilt still present along with a Garganey and a Black Tern of note.
Yesterday afternoon I walked around the newly opened trails, to be honest without access to the hides you can't view Burrowes(which is the main attraction avian wise this time of year) without climbing the banks which is not permissible. Undoubtedly human nature and curiosity will get the better of some people who will in frustration climb the banks. Burrowes can still be viewed from the causeway between it and the New Diggings, but views are very distant and weather dependant. I can't in all honesty advise anyone to travel any distance to visit the reserve to see birds, better to go to Rye Harbour or Oare Marshes.
This Marsh Harrier came over the garden while I was going through my moth trap this morning
Plumed Fan-foot is now an everyday occurrence in the Plodland trap
The Pine Tree Lappet that Barry Banson caught at Littlestone last night
Hungarian Ringed Mediterranean Gull H1Y5
Yesterday morning after getting up at silly o.clock to try and photograph comet Neowise and failing miserably, I headed back to Copt Point where I met Renaud Flamant. Between us we read 84 Mediterranean Gull rings from a flock of c600 birds. Looking at Gulls legs is not too everyones taste but I find it interesting. The majority of the rings were Belgian and French, but we also had German, Czech, Polish, British, Italian, Hungarian and Norwegian.
British Ringed Mediterranean Gull 2L89
Hungarian Ringed Mediterranean Gull H9A5
Juvenile Mediterranean Gull 35KH ringed in Antwerp
Another Antwerp bird 3326
Juvenile Sandwich Tern resting with some of the Mediterranean Gulls
If your patient the Gulls allow close approach
Rock Pipit
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