Lade - warm, dry and cloudy, NW 2 - End of August is nearly always a good time of year for migrants drifting south along the coast and this morning was no exception with plenty of common warblers such as Whitethroats and Blackcaps filtering through the dry scrub. Around the ponds a Spotted Flycatcher was noted along with two cracking Lesser Whitethroats and a few Willow and Reed Warblers and more Blackcaps, while on the Desert two Whinchats, several Wheatears and a Stonechat were present. On south lake the second Black-necked Grebe of autumn, this one still in its nuptial plumage, kept well out in the middle amongst numerous Great Crested and Little Grebes, diving ducks and Coots. The small island at the south end attracted an adult Black-tailed Godwit, which is unusual here due to a shortage of such habitat, unlike a Common Sandpiper that happily foraged along the main track margin. Also noted this morning a Sparrowhawk, two Mediterranean Gulls on north, three Little Egrets and a trickle of calling Yellow Wagtails over unseen. Elsewhere, this Bank Holiday weekend has produced a sprinkling of warblers, chats, starts, flycatchers, a Wryneck and a party of Crossbills across Dungeness; several Black Terns on Burrowes and a Blue-headed Wagtail at Boulderwall; and an Osprey at Camber/Jury`s Gap.
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Late yesterday afternoon I checked the bay from the Tavern viewpoint where eight species of waders included 50 Knot, 20 Sanderling and 10 Ringed Plovers. About 100 Sandwich and 30 Common Terns briefly attracted a roving Arctic Skua. Early morning walks this weekend across the farmland north of New Romney continued to produce plenty of feeding Swallows and Yellow Wagtails, parties of Goldfinches, a few warblers in the hedgerows, a Kingfisher on the New Cut and a flock of around 100 Mediterranean Gulls on the Hope Lane turf field.
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