Lade - mild, misty, light airs - A circuit of the local patch delivered three Goldeneyes and a Black-necked Grebe on south lake amongst the usual common wildfowl, plus an increase in Linnets on the dry scrub as they return for the breeding season. Moving onto Kerton quarry where a pair of Egyptian Geese had a brood of six goslings on the water; the first I`ve seen this year, although I did see a pair with young back in December at Scotney! There was plenty of territorial activity on the main island from Lapwing, Redshank and Shelduck. There wasn`t much change across Dengemarsh from my last visit on Friday with 180 Wigeon, several Shoveler, Shelduck and Teal on the Boulderwall fields, plus several Lapwings and Redshanks, nine Cattle and four Great White Egrets, Marsh Harrier and Buzzard.
On Sunday we visited Pirate Springs where a Red Kite drifted over from New Romney. On the golf links rough grassland several pairs of Skylarks and Meadow Pipits were displaying while 145 Turnstones foraged along the foreshore on the incoming tide. Farmland walks around Romney over the weekend delivered very little apart from a few more Reed Buntings and Linnets to the field margins and on Saturday a steady nocturnal passage of Redwings over the town calling in the mist.
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