Dungeness RSPB - muggy, cloudy, dry, w 2 - After the transit of hundreds of shanks and sandpipers through the Dungeness wetlands yesterday, today was very much a case of, `after the Lord Mayor`s show`, although an early morning check of ARC revealed several lingering Ruffs, Redshanks, LRPs, Dunlins, Common Sandpipers, two Blackwits and a Wood Sandpiper, plus four Garganeys and a Great White Egret opposite Screen hide. At least 20 Blackbirds were feeding on sea buckthorn on the approach to the pines. Over the road virtually all the waders had dispersed with just a couple of Common Sandpipers from Firth hide and three Redshanks from Dennis`s hide, along with four Great White Egrets around the lake and a Hobby over Boulderwall fields.
Marbled White and Common Blue, Lade ponds
On Lade south the first
two Black-necked Grebes of autumn appeared this morning and a Common Sandpiper flitted over the water. An afternoon visit in warm sunshine yielded one or two common butterflies and dragonflies around the ponds, while a count of 100 Mediterranean Gulls was reported on the sands (DS).
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