The Ring-necked Duck, taken from Hanson Hide in this mornings drizzle
Female Marsh Harrier trying to join me in the hide
There were 14 Black-tailed Godwits on the Hay fields along with the Glossy Ibis, I didn't see any Cattle egrets or Great White Egrets today though they may have been hunkered down out of the wind. Apart from the resident avifauna it was a very quit day, with a few more like it in the coming weeks.
Nemophora degeerella by the ARC car park this morning
There were at least 8 Hobby's over the reserve when the sun came out this afternoon
Todays oddity were these 2 Greater White-fronted Geese which appeared over Dengemarsh and flew to The Point where they were seen to fly out to sea a couple of minutes later.
Emperor Dragonfly at Dengemarsh
The new Scott Lookout Shelter where one Scott Hide stood
The volunteers have indeed made an excellent job of constructing the new Lookout shelters, I'm sure their arty design could easily grace one of Chelsea flower show gardens, where things are made for sipping tea on perfect summer afternoons, but not practical every day use. At Dungeness these "Lookouts" provide little or no shelter from the wind and rain. Yesterday evening I was at the Axel shelter when it started raining, I got rather wet as the rain dripped off the roof and blew in, also the rain was blown through the slats of the back of the shelter soaking the bench. In a gentle breeze from the west, I'm sure some it would provide some shelter especially with all the bushes around it, if the wind is any other vector forget it, to be fair there never was any shelter at the end of the Willow Trail, so I guess it is an improvement but a rather expensive and time consuming use of the volunteers undoubted skills.
I cannot see the Scott Lookout shelter being of any obvious use, as even in a Westerly wind like today the wind howled through, seemingly being concentrated through the slats, I can only imagine at the moment what it will be like there in a North, East or Southerly wind. I will now try to never mention them here again unless of course something changes for the better.
The Axel Lookout shelter at the end of the Willow Trail
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