Dungeness - warm, dry and sunny, light airs - At last, a proper spring-like morning with welcome warm sunshine that encouraged a few butterflies onto the wing such as Painted Lady, Common Blue, Small Heath and Holly Blue. Our final session for Clare and Peter started in some style at the north end of Long Pits where five Spotted Flycatchers performed to order in the small aspen copse and adjacent trees towards the Desert. Also noted a female Redstart and plenty of song from Whitethroats, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, a Garden Warbler and a soaring Sparrowhawk.
On ARC we had good views of the `resident` Glossy Ibis among the Black-headed Gull colony, plus two Redshanks, two Sand Martins and a Hobby overhead. We finished the four day bird tour at Lade where the regular Cuckoos and Little Grebes noted. Our final tally of birds was a respectable 110 species, despite the poor weather for the first three days.
Springwatch - I see Springwatch is back on our screens with the usual team (including the annoying one!) spread around the Kingdom from Strangford Loch to northern Scotland and west Norfolk. I caught up with it last night when there was a superb item on the plight of one of our rarest residents the Willow Tit. Its well worth a watch on catch-up if you missed it and superbly presented by the very able, for-one-so-young, Megan McCubbin.
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