Lade - mild, dry and sunny, W 3 - A fine day for our second visit of the week to the local patch where little had changed to the duck population with Pochard the most numerous at 130. One subtle change however was the first returning pair of Great Crested Grebes to their breeding lake, having probably spent the winter offshore feeding alongside hundreds of other grebes on sprats and the like. We walked Mockmill this morning where there was very little on offer apart from a few Blackbirds and Dunnocks. Passerines continue to be few in number just about everywhere, with a Chiffchaff and a Goldcrest around the ponds the only perching birds of note.
Moving on to Dungeness where a wander along the foreshore scavenging for firewood delivered 50 Turnstones and 20 Sanderlings. I spent some time going through thousands of gulls on the beach and offshore by the `dustbin` hoping for a white-winger, but without success. The Boulderwall fields, in warm sunshine, were packed out with hundreds of Wigeons, Lapwings, and feral geese, 12 Curlews but little else. Elsewhere this week our Ted walks around New Romney have been much of a muchness, apart from a calling Cetti`s Warbler and Green Sandpiper along the New Cutt on Wednesday. Other local news includes the continued presence of the two species of divers on Burrowes and two White-fronts on the Scotney sward today.
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