Lade - hot, dry and sunny, e3 - The hottest day of the year so far attracted thousands of day-trippers to the beaches hereabouts, with the coast road from Littlestone to Dungeness being reduced to single file traffic due to irresponsible parking. An unprecedented influx of humanity in these unprecedented times; although the Bobbies and Traffic Wardens were doing a roaring trade dishing out parking tickets to vehicles on double yellow lines and the like. In the aftermath this evening, once they`d returned from whence they came, the beach and surrounding roads were full of litter and it was left to us locals to clear up the mess left by the chavs.
Greatstone beach
Looking towards Lade
On the local patch this morning a first
Green Sandpiper of the return passage was of note, plus a dead Common Shrew along the main track. A late morning visit to ARC delivered another Green Sandpiper in front of Screen hide along with a
Black-winged Stilt and the usual array of gulls, wildfowl, grebes, Coots and Common Terns on the lake. There was no sign of the Gull-billed Tern, although it had been seen earlier.
Common Shrew
Riband Wave on the shed wall
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