Warm, dry and sunny, E4 - Out and about this weekend I was struck by how dry the countryside has become as rainfall this year, and particularly this spring, has been well below average, while there doesn`t appear to be any wet stuff in the forecast for the coming week or more, apart from a few possible showers tonight. As a result the shingle ridges, normally verdant and full of flowers about now, have taken on a late summer appearance with many plants shrivelled up in the strong sunshine and desiccating wind. However, tundra-bound waders continue to be the order of the day with another scattering of Whimbrel, Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, Sanderling, Dunlin, Knot and Grey Plover pausing across Burrowes, ARC and Kerton quarry; this morning in the high tide wader roost at Kerton a flock of 37 Barwits contained a Dutch, colour-ringed bird (details submitted). Yesterday a calling Greenshank flew over New Romney and onto the garden list! Also noted today: a drake Red-crested Pochard at Lade and four Mediterranean Gulls on Kerton lake, plus a distant White Stork soaring over the desert towards the water tower (where it briefly landed!) and last seen heading west over Lydd.
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