Curlews

Dungeness - cool and cloudy, showers, se 4 - A cool morning with a few sharp and prolonged showers. After checking a blustery Lade, where once again plenty of low Swifts were the order of the day, we headed for the point and a seawatch from the hide; well, the wind was from the south-east! An hour produced 30 Gannets, 10 Common and five Sandwich Terns, four Mediterranean Gulls, two Common Scoters and two Shelducks eastbound, plus 30 coasting Swifts.
  Moving onto the bird reserve as the rain ceased Swifts were everywhere. Two 1st summer Little Gulls were over ARC from the causeway road, plus a Garganey amongst scores of eclipse Gadwall from Screen hide, where also Cuckoo and singing Lesser Whitethroat. On Burrowes the wader cast included 21 Curlews, four Whimbrels, two Bar-tailed Godwit, one Black-tailed Godwit, two each of Dunlin and Sanderling and a spanking Turnstone in full breeding plumage. Three Sandwich Terns briefly joined the Common Terns, while Cuckoo, Hobby and Little Egret noted from the Access Road.
  The Serin was still present at Littlestone. 

                                Curlews, Barwit and Sandwich Terns on Burrowes