Lade - Cool and cloudy, NW 2 - Our first visit of the year to the local patch where the highlight was a very elusive Black-necked Grebe which only showed on a second scan of south lake over by the wall mirror where it spent more time submerged than on the surface. Also noted on south lake three Goldeneyes, 40 Shovelers and 300 Teal, plus a Sparrowhawk and Marsh Harrier over the willow swamp and a Chiffchaff by the ponds. At Dungeness, between the lifeboat station and the concrete road, hundreds of gulls feeding on beached crustaceans included at least one 1st winter Caspian Gull and over 100 Turnstones, plus scores of Great Crested Grebes on the sea and auks fizzing to and fro. A walk down to the pines at Tower Pits yielded little apart from a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Great White Egret from Screen hide.
A Ted walk along the foreshore at St Mary`s Bay yesterday produced plenty of Turnstones, Curlews, Dunlins, Oystercatchers and Common Gulls on the tidal mud and groynes, plus 10 Pied Wagtails on the sea wall and a Grey Wagtail overhead.
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