Lade/Dungeness - warm, dry and cloudy, sw 3 - A pleasant afternoon`s birding in the company of Clare and Peter started and finished by scanning the bay from the Tavern viewpoint either side of high tide. The Curlews had already gone to roost, but we had close views of 300 Oystercatchers, 50 Knots, 100 Dunlins, 50 Sanderlings, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover and Turnstone, plus seven Shelducks, 150 Sandwich Terns, Little Egret and Mediterranean Gull.
The majority of the afternoon was spent at the ARC where the bushes held small mixed flocks of tits and warblers, including Blackcap, Willow Warbler and Lesser Whitethroat. Hundreds of Sand Martins and Swallows swarmed over the lake along with 20 Common Terns and a few Sandwich Terns, while hundreds more common diving and dabbling ducks included a few Pintail and Wigeon. Two Black-necked Grebes hugged the far reedbed over by Hanson hide and the Glossy Ibis showed well with both Great White and Little Egrets. Waders included 50 Golden Plovers, five Little Ringed Plovers, Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwits, two Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin and a smart Little Stint. On the Desert behind the water tower two each of Whinchat and Wheatear were noted, plus Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk and two late Swifts heading south.
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