Red-necked Grebe

Dungeness - cool, cloudy, rain, NE 2 - A grim, cold day with rain throughout. However, we ventured out this afternoon to the bird reserve to see whether the Red-necked Grebe on Burrowes would come close enough for a piccie, which it didn`t, preferring to stay over the far side of the pit and diving regularly. A Common Tern and four Ringed Plovers were the only other birds of note.
  A wander across the top end of the Desert looking for migrants was largely unsuccessful with just a handful of nervy Song Thrushes flushed from cover and a couple of singing Willow Warblers at Long Pits. We finished off with a brief seawatch from the hide which delivered 30 Brents and a trickle of Gannets, Common Scoters, Sandwich and Common Terns up-Channel.

                               Common Gulls on a nesting box