Warm, dry and sunny, E3 - Another superb summer`s day with a cooling breeze off the North Sea tempering the heat. Our early morning Ted walks today and for much of the past week have taken place on the farmland around New Romney where the reed-fringed ditches and sewers are bustling with fledged Reed Warblers along with lesser numbers of Sedge Warblers and Reed Buntings. Yellowhammer, Linnet, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Common and Lesser Whitethroats have all produced young from the hedgerows along Hope Lane, as have Mistle Thrush, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers on the Ashford Road turf field and adjacent stands of mature trees. Common Buzzard continues to be the most numerous raptor locally with a `kettle` of six high over the town yesterday incurring the wrath of the Herring Gulls. The humid nights have delivered large numbers of moths to the garden trap with six new species of macros including: Double-lobed, Star-wort, a Mouse Moth (formerly abundant, now not so) and a Small Ranunculus who`s status has gone the other way, from a rarity to a locally established resident in this part of the country.
Visits to the bird reserve (Hanson hide) and Lade this week have been notable for a few passage waders including Common Sandpipers and Dunlins, a Black-tailed Godwit and several Little Ringed Plovers amongst the breeding Avocets (two fledged juvs), Oystercatchers and Ringed Plovers. Large numbers of eclipse Gadwall, Shoveler, Pochard and Tufted Ducks attracted to ARC have also included a few Teal, a Garganey and a Wigeon, plus a Pintail on Burrowes where up to ten sitting Common Terns are still on the shingle island out from Dennis`s hide.
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