Early morning from Hanson saw the a single Garganey, 3Great White Egrets, 4 Cattle Egrets, 5 Common Sandpipers and 3 Dunlin among the resident wildfowl, it was good to watch the 2 Avocet chicks flying strongly around the lake causing mayhem wherever they landed, due to the parent bird steaming into any hapless bird that was had the temerity to be on the same island as the chicks.
My plan when I left the ARC was to go to the fishing boats, but the wind was rising and dampness was in the air so I thought better of it, mainly because usually when a storm is coming in there is very little to be seen on the sea at Dungeness, hopefully as is often the case the couple of days after a storm can produce birds.
The moth trap was as expected poor though I did get my first Small Rufous of the year and 4 Tree-lichen Beautys which were not long ago a great rarity.
Tree Lichen Beauty
Small Rufous
Another visit to Hanson this afternoon and to Burrowes just in case a storm blown waif had dropped in drew blanks at both sites. There was no news either way on the Pectoral Sandpiper, 3 Black-necked Grebes were on Lade South per PT.
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