Hot, dry and sunny, light airs - A circular walk around the main trail on the reserve this morning produced all the expected breeding birds including three pairs of Common Terns on Dengemarsh and two pairs on Burrowes. There was much activity around the Sand Martin colony as adults busily fed juveniles. The hayfields are now pretty much dried out with a pair of Avocets and Shelducks attracted to a puddle on hayfield 2. A Hobby hawked insects high over Hookers where several parties of Bearded Tits were active in the reedbed. Across the road from Hanson hide several pairs of Avocets and Common Terns were nesting alongside hundreds of eclipse Pochard and Gadwall, plus Garganey, Shoveler, two Ringed Plovers and a flighty Curlew.
This past week has been fairly predictable with several immature Little Gulls coming and going at ARC and the first hints of autumn with returning Willow Warblers at three locations along the coast and New Romney and an increase in Lapwings and diving ducks around the wetlands. With summer temperatures kicking in its been busy in the garden moth trap and it looks set to get warmer still by the weekend.
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