Warm, cloudy, light airs - After last nights welcome rainfall this morning started on a humid, overcast note. I hadn`t visited the local patch for a while so we headed down to Lade pausing awhile to scan the bay with DS opposite the Romney Tavern where large numbers of birds were present on a falling tide. Over a thousand Oystercatchers were the most numerous species followed by hundreds of Mediterranean, Common and Black-headed Gulls, at least 50 Sandwich Terns, 200 Curlews and two Little Egrets, while the only small waders noted were eight Ringed Plovers. Onto the gravel pit lakes where there had been a big increase in diving ducks with around 500 Pochards and Tufted Ducks and 30 Great Crested Grebes. A large, mixed roving passerine flock by the ponds was of interest comprising 20 Long-tailed, Great and Blue Tits, 20 Willow Warblers, 10 Common and five Lesser Whitethroats, two Garden Warblers and several Dunnocks. Elsewhere, the White Stork was still present on the bird reserve this morning, though mobile.
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