New Romney - Overcast, mild, light airs - Steady overnight rain (the first for almost a month) did the trick with this morning`s Ted walk hitting the jackpot - a grounded Nightingale singing from a bramble thicket off Hope Lane, in atypical habitat, and my first record here. Also present a rash of warblers having dropped in and around the ditches and willows at the junction with Cockreed Lane, including two Lesser Whitethroats, several Chiffchaffs, Sedge and Reed Warblers, a Cetti`s Warbler and a Blackcap. Mistle Thrush, Long-tailed Tits, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail and several Yellowhammers completed a pretty decent walk `around the block`.
Yesterday a circuit of Dungeness was notable for a small arrival of Willow Warblers around the Trapping Area, while more Whitethroats were in song across the Desert. An hour (0900-1000hrs) at the seawatch hide in the company of PE produced the following: two Arctic Skuas, 20 Gannets, 12 Mediterranean Gulls, seven Whimbresl, two Red-throated Divers, seven Common Scoters, seven Oystercatchers and a Merganser.
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