A fall of Wheatears

Dungeness - muggy, overcast, light airs - En-route to the bird reserve a check of New Diggings and ARC resulted in very little of note apart from several Goldeneyes on both waters. On Boulderwall fields the usual Wigeon, Teal, Curlew, feral geese, Great White and Little Egrets.
  A guided walk for a U3A group from Lewes delivered similar fare to yesterday with plenty of Shovelers, Shelduck, Teal, large gulls, Cormorants and Lapwings on Burrowes, plus four Goldeneyes, 10 Ruff, four Avocets, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin and a lost-looking Brent Goose. The summer plum Black-necked Grebe was still on Christmas Dell pool, while Marsh Harrier, Goldeneye and 50 Wigeon noted at Dengemarsh. Passerines around the site included five Chiffchaffs, 10 Cetti`s Warblers, 20 Reed Buntings and singles of Firecrest and Dartford Warbler.
A couple of Tree Sparrows were on the car park feeders and a Wheatear flew across the access road on the drive out.

                                Ruff on Burrowes

  At Dungeness, two Chiffchaffs and a Firecrest in the lighthouse garden, while a loose flock of six Wheatears performed on the foreshore by the lifeboat station.

                                Three of the six at Dungeness

  Back at Lade a check of the desert revealed another eight Wheatears, plus two more on the beach making ten, a spring record here for me. Also noted five Chiffchaffs in back gardens, another Firecrest in broom scrub and 20 Sandwich Terns on the bay.
  Many more Wheatears, Firecrests and Chiffchaffs were noted across the peninsula, so all in all a pretty good early spring birding day I`d say.

                                Three of the ten at Lade