Dartford Warbler

Dungeness - warm, dry and sunny - A superb morning for a tour of the peninsula starting at the point where a trickle of Gannets, auks and Red-throated Divers were feeding offshore. On the land, a Kestrel on the old lighthouse, Black Redstart and Meadow Pipit around the sewage plant and a Dartford Warbler and Stonechat near Jarmans (thanks to DB for the call). A circuit of the bird reserve produced all the usual suspects, apart from the wintering Smew on ARC, although it was reported. The four Cattle Egrets showed well at Cockles Bridge as did 14 Bewick`s and five Whooper Swans at Midley, but there was no sign of the Dennes Lane flock, so maybe they`ve returned north.

                                  Cattle Egrets, Cockles Bridge