Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Dungeness - warm, dry and sunny, light airs - The settled weather continues, and it was very much to the liking of thousands of hirundines, mostly House Martins, many of which were settled on overhead power lines and cross-trees, twittering away to one another, before heading out across a mill pond-like Channel; what is there not to like about these endearing little migrants.
  Several Kestrels were keeping the flocks on the move as they tried their luck, but without success. Also noted across the point two Wheatears, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, a Whitethroat in the Moat, several Siskins overhead and a Peregrine perched atop a pylon by A Station.

                                Mostly House Martins

  An afternoon visit to Hanson hide yielded similar fare to yesterday: two Cattle Egrets, four Great Whites, 80 Goldies, 100 Lapwings, two Dunlins and a Ruff, plus the usual wildfowl, a Merlin and a Water Rail. 
Scotney - Joined CT this afternoon in the lay-by overlooking the front fields where we had brief flight views, and a couple of even briefer glimpses on the grass, of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper within a large mixed flock of waders comprising mainly Lapwings and Golden Plovers. Also in and around the flock were small numbers of Curlew, Blackwit, Redshank, Dunlin, Ruff and Ringed Plover, plus Wheatear, Linnet, Mipit and Starlings. At no time did the flock really settle down and many birds were just over the ridge on the lake side and out of view, until eventually spooked by a Peregrine which sent the main body of the flock flying back towards the Sussex end of the gravel workings.
  A check of the beach this evening on a falling tide revealed a single Arctic Skua harrying the few remaining Sandwich Terns along the tideline.