Pirate Springs - warm, dry and sunny, light airs - Our morning Ted walk started at Littlestone Green and followed the coastal footpath to St Mary`s Bay car park, returning via Pirate Springs. A few bits and pieces along the beach included several Mediterranean Gulls and Sandwich Terns, plus 30 Oystercatchers, 20 Turnstones, five Dunlins and two Grey Plovers. The bramble scrub and tamarisks were full of Chiffchaffs along with a few Robins and Great Tits as parties of Goldfinches and Meadow Pipits trickled overhead towards Dungeness. Several Wheatears, Stonechats and Skylarks were present around the old hotel while hundreds of Swallows and a few House Martins hawked emerging craneflies by the hillocks; many of which then settled along the fence-line tweeting amongst themselves and preening before heading south. Patches of ivy attracted plenty of red admirals and a couple of speckled woods.
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