Dungeness RSPB - warm, dry and sunny, SW2 - A muggy morning for a guided walk for four guests around the circular trail where most of the avian action was on the wetlands, particularly Burrowes pit which hosted the usual array of wildfowl, gulls and Common Terns, plus hundreds of migrant Lapwings and Sand Martins, four Common Sandpipers and a White Stork that dropped in mid-morning and posed well enough for a few pics from Firth lookout; it was ringed and appeared to have a tracker on its back, so most likely originated from the Knepp estate in Sussex. Dengemarsh provided the spectacle of a juvenile Marsh Harrier and Hobby tussling with one another as they hunted over the reed-bed, where a Great White and three Little Egrets were also seen and a few more Common Terns. Other notables included a Greenshank and Redshank over calling, two Kestrels, several Yellow Wagtails, singing Cetti`s and Willow Warblers and six Cattle Egrets amongst the stock in the Boulderwall fields, totalling 52 species of birds during the three hour walk. A decent range of regular grassland butterflies were also seen along with plenty of common dragon and damselflies, plus a Jersey Tiger moth.
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