1400-1530 A stiff W breeze and intermittent sun. Following on from the early morning substantial thrush movement through Seasalter there was not one to be seen this PM! Noted 3 Little Stints on the E flood and 12 Ruff with the Redshank / Blk T Godwit flock. The duck Garganey was withTeal in the SE aspect and the Long-billed Dowitcher…
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Oare Marshes
08:15-12:15 It was a cloudy morning with a freshening SW wind and a low tide. Amongst the ducks on the east flood were a Garganey and a pair of Pintails. Waders included the juvenile Little Ringed Plover with a droopy wing, two Little Stints, a single Knot amongst the Black-tailed Godwits and, later in the morning, the adult Long-billed Dowitcher…
Oare Marshes
A cool SW at 11deg. Walked west into TQ beyond FSB. Greenfinch numbers exceeded 20 at Uplees copse; Golden Plovers came high off the Sheppey shoreline; Meadow Pipits were mobile around the piles of Bladder-wrack and 2 Rock Pipits were with them. A duck Goldeneye flew W and dropped into the South Deep channel where accumulatively westward, there were at…
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
22-10-17 Little grebe x 2, swallow x 1, house martin x 1, gadwall x 12, shoveler x 4, little egret x 2, wigeon x 1, grey wagtail x 1, green sandpiper x 1 (seen from Tyler Hide). 20-10-17 Kingfisher x 1 (seen from Tyler Hide), also greylag/Canada goose hybrid x 2. 14-10-17 Peregrine x 1, sparrowhawk x 1, kingfisher x…
Oare Marshes
17th October 2017 08.00 to 12.00hrs Dry and calm around 14C – High Tide at roughly 11.30 Spent a pleasant 4 hours this morning, amassing a total of 21 wader species. The Wilson’s Phalarope and Long-billed Dowitcher are still present. The Phalarope seems to like following Teal closely and feeding in their wake. 3 Green Sandpipers were seen over the…
Oare Marshes
1430—1630 Great to still have the opportunity to view the long staying, clock-wise spinning E flood Wilson`s Phalarope; following a bit of Balkans travel. The bird habitually was in close tow with Teal or Shoveler, picking / jabbing minutia in the disturbed water in the wake of the ducks. Not quite symbiosis ; so maybe `commensalism` ?? Whichever, one heck…
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
9-10-17 Nuthatch x 1 (calling in the car park area). 8-10-17 (including Webs count) Mute swan x 4, greylag goose x 249, Canada goose x 158, Egyptian goose x 14, grey heron x 5, little egret x 1, little grebe x 2, great-crested grebe x 16 adults and 2 young, moorhen x 21, coot x 92, lapwing x 51, common…
Reculver
A Lapland bunting was present on the promenade at Bishopstone glen this afternoon around 12.30. Dudley Cox
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
18-9-17 Lapwing x 50, green sandpiper x 2, dunlin x 1. 17-9-17 Common snipe x 4, dunlin x 1, common sandpiper x 1, green sandpiper x 1, Egyptian goose x 14, gadwall x 1, wigeon x 1, shoveler x 3, pochard x 4, linnet x 1. 16-9-17 Little grebe x 2, pochard x 3, shoveler x 2, kingfisher x 2,…
Oare Marshes
1030-1300 A short visit with a W/NW strong breeze and HT. From the seawall hide, Common Terns were fishing in the creek; a Marsh Harrier in distinctly untidy dress laboured towards Sheppey; two Great Crested Grebes were off the point and a large dark unusual profile in mid channel turned out to be a juv Gannet. 4 others came into…