Juvenile Black Tern
The mucky weather at the weekend brought in up 8 Black Terns, an Arctic tern and several Common and Sandwich Terns, disappointingly there wasn't a big arrival of waders, but Wood, Green and Common Sandpipers, Greenshanks, Redshanks, Ringed and Little Ringed Plovers, Black-tailed Godwits and Dunlin, which have all been present for sometime. Up to 4 Garganey can be found at the ARC along with 2 Glossy Ibis, 6 Golden plover dropped in today and 40 more were at Galloways with a Whinchat per CT.
There a few Swifts over the ARC and beach today(possibly the last I'll see this year) and 100s of Sand Martins.
4 Cattle Egrets came to the ARC before going to roost
Greenshanks
The last few days have also brought an arrival warblers with many Willow Warblers, Common and Lesser Whitethroats, with smaller numbers of Garden, Sedge and Reed Warblers., 2 Pied Flycatchers and a Redstart.
Lesser Whitethroat
Common Whitethroat
Lovely lemon Willow Warbler
Shag from the fishing boats
Sea watching has remained abysmal with a Shag off the fishing boats being the highlight which will more than likely be the only one I see at Dungeness this year as it is surprisingly scarce here.
I found another Great Green Bush Cricket in Brambles by the Screen at the ARC
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