Mild, overcast, drizzle, SW 2 - The wet weather continues... We started the morning at Lade where a couple of hints of spring comprised a passage of 60 Meadow Pipits over the desert and a sky-high calling Sandwich Tern (my first of the year) that headed out towards the bay. There was nothing new on the lakes apart from a pair of Great Crested Grebes on south. Moving onto the reserve where the highlight was a Kingfisher and a Great White Egret in the same field of view on Cooks, plus two Yellow-legged Gulls on Burrowes. As I was leaving site news came through on the local WhatsApp group (from DB and NB) of an American Wigeon reported at Scotney, a long-expected rarity and as far as I`m aware a no-show in the past twenty years that I`ve lived here. I was soon on site to confirm that indeed it was a smart adult drake American Wigeon within a large flock of Wigeons. I didn`t have my scope with me but managed to get at least one record shot pic with the camera; and thanks to the trio of birders from Thanet who stopped enabling me to have good scope views through their optics.
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