Curlews

Dungeness - warm, dry, overcast, light airs - A muggy day throughout with very little wind. We walked the Trapping Area first thing where a decent collection of Common Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Willow Warblers were grounded along the north-east side, plus one of two Chiffchaffs and Lesser Whitethroats. Overhead three Whimbrels and a Grey Plover, plus several Yellow Wagtails and a couple of hundred Sand Martins south.
Lade  - A few more scrub and leaf warblers by the ponds, plus a Common Sandpiper on south lake margin. An afternoon check of the bay on a falling tide revealed at least 300 Curlews, 150 Dunlins and a few Barwits, Knots and a Ringed Plover.
  The American Black Tern was still present on the bird reserve, on Burrowes.