Heron attack!

Dungeness - warm, dry and cloudy, light airs - Spent the first part of the morning on the peninsula searching for migrants on the Desert of which there were very few apart from several Chiffchaffs. There was, however, plenty of breeding activity from Reed Buntings, Stonechats, Meadow Pipits and Skylarks.
  We then checked out ARC/Tower Pits where both Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers noted at the pines along with a few tits and finches, plus a Golden Plover overhead calling forlornly, a `booming` Bittern, two Goldeneyes on the lake, a Sparrowhawk through and several soaring Buzzards and Marsh Harriers. At least 10 Tree Sparrows were active around the car park scrub.
  So, a pretty decent Birdwatching Break for Clare and Peter during which time we rattled up a respectable 93 species including a good combination of migrants and breeding birds.

                                Willow Trail

Lade - A late afternoon stroll over the pits in gloomy light delivered Black-necked Grebe and Goldeneye on south lake. A Grey Heron gliding along the coastal strip searching for ponds incurred the wrath of the local bully boys and was soon chased out of town by a gang of six Herring Gulls. The thugs soon had the heron pinned down on the shingle and could`ve caused serious damage until we intervened, after which the distraught heron eventually got airborne and dropped down into a reedbed for a breather before flying off inland apparently none the worse for its mugging.

                                One battered Grey Heron