Weekly roundup

Dungeness - mild, sunshine and showers, ssw3 - A mixed bag of weather today with drizzle this morning and a brisk wind from the south, easing and drying out this afternoon with plenty of sunshine. At the point first thing (where filming for Countryfile continues) very little to report with just a couple of hundred gulls at the Patch and a few common seabirds offshore.
  A run out to Midley produced 22 Bewick`s Swans in the oil-seed rape field at the junction of Coldharbour Lane, but little else apart from a Merlin over the lane by the model flying club. In contrast Scotney was teeming with feral geese, ducks, gulls, Cormorants, Lapwings and Golden Plovers, plus several each of Curlew, Ruff and Redshank. I could only find two Long-tailed Ducks at the Kent end, but no doubt the other three were lurking somewhere on the pit.
  At Tower pits on the bird reserve it was very quiet, while there was no change at Lade pits with just two Goldeneyes of note. The drake Smew was reported from the back lake at Hooker`s.

                                Bewick`s Swans, Midley