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| Black Winged Stilts |
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Fleeting Dunge visit
Waking at 5am, I decided to get up and head for Dungeness. I was undecided whether to seawatch first or look for the Black Winged Stilts reported yesterday, as they would be a Kent tick for me. In the end I made the wrong decision and parked in the ARC car park and walked onto the reserve heading for the hayfields. I did see my first CUCKOO of the year and there were SEDGE WARBLERS and COMMON WHITETHROATS everywhere. I added RAVEN, 4 MED GULLS and several BEARDED TITS but there were no Stilts and in fact no waders at all on the hayfields. Eventually I headed for the sea stopping off on the causeway between ARC and New Diggings, there were good numbers of Terns. Among them was 1 LITTLE TERN, 2 BLACK TERNS and at least 1 ARCTIC TERN with the rest being COMMON TERNS, a really nice stop, before heading off to the sea news came through that the Stilts were back on the hayfield! I met up with Neil, Jan and Paul and enjoyed good views of the BLACK WINGED STILTS (2) plus a WOOD SANDPIPER and LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. In hindsight I could have seawatched for a couple of hours before looking for the Stilts but it was good to be out and about, away from the local patch for a change. A couple of shots from today.....
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7 comments:
Sounds like a good session Alan. Always a top Kent day if you can see Black winged Stilt. Some lovely shots of them.
A good day Alan, with good records and excellent images.
Regards
Pete.
Great shots of the BWS hoping to see them tomorrow! Shame about the football result today !
Alan ,
Love the first CW shot , with attitude .
Great BWStilt shots . Did you read that there were 10/11 there originally on the 24th .
Wd. Sand a nice bonus too .
BW Stilt isn't on my Kent list either Alan. Maybe they'll stay long enough for me to get down there. Nice shots by the way!
Ohwwww ....... especially those stilts I find beautiful to see. That I have never met yourself. The warbler I have never seen it and I know it only from photographs of others. Here Truly these pictures Alan :-)
Beautiful common Whitethroat.. Nice pictures.. Have a great weekend..
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