Mild, cloudy, SW5 - A brisk south-westerly made for difficult birding conditions across the Bank Holiday weekend. However, the undoubted highlight was the discovery by James Dee of an Eastern Bonelli`s Warbler in the Trapping Area yesterday morning, which mercifully remained active until last knockings affording many visitors a chance to get to grips with what was a first for Dungeness and Kent. Its distinctive call and trilling song were thankfully regularly heard thus confirming its identity from the Western form; actually seeing it though was a lot more difficult with brief flight or obscured views as it moved through cover being the order-of-the-day, although James did manage to get a good image of it (re: Dungeness Bird Observatory blog). Elsewhere, the Red-footed Falcon at Dengemarsh appears to have moved on (leaving a few Hobbies behind), a trickle of passage waders continued to pass through the wetlands, a Spotted Flycatcher was at Long Pits and the drake Red-crested Pochard was on Lade south this morning.
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