Ring-necked Parakeet

Lade - warm, dry and sunny, ne 3 - A brisk wind off the bay tempered the heat of yesterday and continued to increase throughout the afternoon. The morning round of the local patch was predictably quiet, although the first Dabchick young of spring were on the water around the willow swamp, where there was no sign of yesterdays Turtle Dove. Scanning from the aerial mound delivered several Marsh Harriers and Buzzards over the airfield.
  Last nights moth trap catch was a little disappointing with only the Shears new for the year.

 

                                     Shears

  This afternoon, en-route to Hythe, a Red Kite upset the Herring Gulls in the airspace above the Academy, while from Aldi car park in Hythe the sound and glimpse of a Rose-ringed Parakeet from the housing estate over the road was a first for me.
  An evening visit to the bay yielded the usual waders and gulls on a falling tide, but not a single Sandwich Tern, what has happened to them this spring?