Friday 26 January 2018

Fog and Lemsips

Lade - For the past few days I`ve been laid low by a nasty bout of man-flu which has restricted birding activities and made me stir crazy - and that`s after just one day indoors! "What would you be like if you had a `proper` illness", said my sympathetic partner, and she`s right of course, as I pathetically mooched about the cottage sneezing and moaning and generally feeling sorry for myself. Even Barney gave me a pull-yourself-together kind-of-a-look.
  And then last night I saw the weather forecast, sunshine and light winds for Friday, excellent, just the job for a morning in the field... Except they failed to mention anything about the thick fog which shrouded the peninsula for most of the morning, followed by low cloud, and lack of sunshine. Still, they got the wind speed about right, so it wasn't a completely useless forecast.
 However, off we went into the mist to Dungeness where it was so dense that a seawatch was pointless. We then joined PB, who`d just reported a Glaucous Gull at the Patch, for a plod around the bushes via the moat and down to the Trapping Area, where a few passerines such as Dunnock, Starling and Blue Tit was about the sum total.
  A scan across south lake at Lade delivered the wintering Long-tailed Duck in the murk among the usual wildfowl, after which we called it a day and headed home for the Lemsips.
  Elsewhere today, when the mist lifted, two Dartford Warblers were noted at the point, a Black-throated Diver on ARC, plus Smew and Slavonian Grebe from Christmas Dell hide on the bird reserve.

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