Lade -mild, cloudy, W 2 - These past couple of mornings have been quiet in the garden moth trap with just Angled Shades and Pale Grass Eggar of note, plus a Hummingbird Hawk-moth on the buddleia yesterday.
My first proper visit to the local patch in over a week yielded very little change apart from a few more Willow and Sedge Warblers on the move in the willow swamp, plus a Greenshank yesterday and several Swifts south this morning. A Dartford Warbler was noted as well as several Stonechats, a trickle of Sand Martins, two Yellow Wagtails over and the first Spotted Flycatcher of autumn this morning.
Also, early afternoon yesterday, the local Herring Gulls went into meltdown. Eventually I picked up a distant raptor flying towards ARC that appeared to be an Osprey, and was probably the same bird seen at the point around the same time by PB.
Dungeness - On Burrowes today up to 12 Black Terns amongst hundreds of Common Terns and a Green Sandpiper over the car park. Elsewhere, two each of Black-necked Grebe and Wood Sandpiper on ARC and two Whinchats and a Wheatear at Galloways, where a Wryneck was discovered later in the day by RW.
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