Mild, dry and sunny, light airs - With the daylight hours steadily increasing and the weather settling down there have been more than one or two hints of spring around of late. In the garden the snowdrops are in flower and the Great Tits have become more vocal, while this morning the first Mistle Thrush of the year was singing from atop a parkland tree. A Ted walk out back, in warm sunshine, delivered more bird song from Song Thrush, Greenfinch, Chaffinch and Skylark. On Saturday we spent the morning at Dungeness where the highlights were several Black Redstarts around the power station and war memorial and two Common Snipes flushed from the desert, plus at least five Chiffchaffs in the trapping area. Elsewhere this weekend there was little change to the local birding scene with reports of the Bewick`s Swan herd still at Midley, small parties of Bean, Pink-footed and White-fronted Geese scattered across Dengemarsh and Scotney, a Black-necked Grebe on Dengemarsh lake and a Long-tailed Duck on New Diggings.
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