Cool, dry and sunny, E3 - The fine weather continues but with a keen east wind taking the edge off the temperature. Weekend Ted walks around New Romney produced very little of note and with record low rainfall during March, and little in the immediate forecast, the countryside is drying out fast affording the custodians ample opportunities to drill spring barley and spray, spray, spray. Yesterday morning a Goldcrest sang from a neighbours garden, while in the afternoon all the gulls and corvids in NR went into meltdown as an Osprey (with fish) passed north over the town having previously been seen by Owen L at Littlestone.
This morning we birded the local patch where four Shelducks and a pair of Goldeneye were the highlights on Lade south, along with a sprinkling of Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, Gadwall, 125 Tufted Ducks and six pairs of Great Crested Grebes. The dry scrub was quiet apart from a few Linnets, Skylarks and Meadow Pipits and a Sparrowhawk and Common Buzzard over. Kerton quarry produced 80 Oystercatchers in the high tide roost, plus 10 pairs on the islands, four Redshanks and ten Lapwings, four pairs of Great Crested Grebes and a pair each of Shelduck and Egyptian Goose.
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