Oystercatchers

Dungeness - mild, wet and windy, sw 5 - A blustery day with showers rattling through during the morning before drying up into the afternoon. An hour looking at the sea from the Patch and the seawatch hides delivered plenty of distant Gannets and Sandwich Terns, several auks and Arctic Skuas.
  From Hanson hide two Cattle Egrets, Little Gull, Black Tern, several Dunlins, Greenshank and Garganey, plus hundreds of hirundines over the water. Chiffchaffs called from the willows and a flock of Long-tailed Tits moved through.

                               Cattle Egret and Little Gull, ARC

  This afternoon I checked the local patch where a few Chiffchaffs and Goldcrests noted around the ponds. Most of the wildfowl were sheltering from the strong wind on the far side of south lake.
  A bay watch from Littlestone at low tide produced a decent count of eight species of waders and three Shelducks, the highlight being 750 Oystercatchers.