Cold, cloudy, NW 3 - These past couple of morning`s we`ve walked the foreshore with Ted from St Mary`s Bay to Greatstone beach checking the tideline for passerines, in particular buntings, but have come across very little apart from a couple each of Meadow Pipit and Pied Wagtail, plus a Chiffchaff. The only glimmer of hope was a ground-hugging bird, that may well have been a Lapland Bunting, on the track at Pirate Springs halfway between the coffee van and the Romney Bay hotel that sped inland to the golf links before I could clinch the id. On a falling tide all ten species of regular wintering bay waders were logged on the sands with Ringed Plover and Redshank being the scarcest in just single figures. Along the way Common Gulls were much in evidence with over 300 counted.
A small flock of Long-tailed Tits are now regular visitors to the garden bird feeders.
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