Lade - cool, cloudy, drizzle, N3 - A grim morning for our tour of the local patch accompanied by a fine drizzle and a nippy wind out of the north. Swifts were once again the order of the day with hundreds swooping low over the still waters, where a small flock of Pochards on south lake hinted at the changing season. More Swifts streamed across the Desert where the Starling flocks had returned to the sodden turf to hunt leatherjackets following yesterday evenings downpour (11mm recorded at the KRC).
Rosy Starling, Lydd
News came through late morning concerning the reappearance of the Dengemarsh adult
Rosy Starling that had relocated to The Rype at Lydd. By the time I arrived it was absent, but soon reappeared on the `village green` to feed amongst its commoner congeners and tug invertebrates from the burnished turf. By now a small gathering of local birders had arrived, some of whom I`d not seen since lockdown, to enjoy this cracking migrant from the east which has been turning up across the country in some numbers.
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