Lade - warm, dry and sunny, light airs - We were up and out early around the local patch this morning before it got too hot. There was plenty to check through on south lake where juveniles of Black and Common Tern kept one another company feeding over the water while at least two Black-necked Grebes were out in the middle and two Garganeys by the wall mirror, my first here for several years. Fifty odd Sand Martins swirled over the willow swamp, but apart from a few common warblers by the ponds all was quiet. We called in at Dennis`s hide on the reserve on the way home where a Dotterel had been reported earlier on Burrowes. However, there was no sign of it, just a flock of 30 Golden Plovers and a flighty Grey Plover.
Elsewhere this Bank Holiday weekend we`ve been tramping the farmland around New Romney where the cereal harvest is now complete; some fields having already been ploughed and drilled for next years crop. Preparatory work for a massive turf field attracted hundreds of Common, Black-headed and Mediterranean Gulls. Also noted a Greenshank over calling and several `kettles` of up to six Buzzards soaring over the town. The garden moth trap continues to deliver with Orange Swift new for the site yesterday.
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