Images taken from the last month or so that I have been so pleased to have taken but not posted here .
Jack snipe Dungeness RSPB (26th Oct) , Red-breasted flycatcher (1st Oct) Dungeness, Hare and Red-backed Shrike (September) Dungeness RSPB .
Nicky and I have been trapping recording and releasing some of the moths in our Littlestone garden and we have had some pleasant surprises best to date being Small marbled ,Blairs Mocha and last night Marbled fern . A far better start than we could have hoped for .
Superb and the acrobat comment and image are brilliant
Dungeness today .What a superb day !! Montagu`s Harrier appeared in the distance that proceeded to show on and off from afar for the next hour or so a Wryneck, 8 Glossy ibis in the air at one time and that evening on the Dengmarsh track watching a osprey flying over the Dungeness RSPB lakes .
A couple of nights away in the new forest gave us some great birds. So many spot fly a pair of distant Goshawks ,fleeting moments of wood warbler and on our return home Galloways Lydd ranges a stunning Zitting Cisticola and Dungeness produced Icterine warbler what a week !!!
Nicky and I had just returned to the Dungeness RSPB visitor center after a walk round .A man mentioned he had seen Night heron on the reserve Thank you ! We put the word out and Nicky soon re-found the bird that turned out to be very obliging for a Night heron . These images only took 5 hours :-)
That is brilliant Owen !
Firstly stunning looking Red-footed Falcon at Dungeness this week next a Fulmar from the Sussex cliffs then a very grumpy Heron mobbed by two Avocets again RSPB Dungeness .The last image a hunting Nightjar that flew very close past Nicky and I as we took a late evening walk through Ashdown forest .
Superb image Richard !!
Superb Owen
I am so lucky to have such good birding and birding friends at Dungeness. Yesterday there was a Whiskered Tern on the RSPB reserve. I was late and thought It had left so Imagine my relief when I spotted it on the last place I was going to look Hookers pit. Later it flew high and off the reserve.
There are reasons for abnormal white feathers including age , leucism, diet and injury this crow might have suffered from more than one of these? Taken from the footpath at Scotney farm Lydd . Also Common sandpiper, yellow wagtails, yellowhammer, Avocet ,Whimbrel, Marsh harrier and corn buntings
Beautiful Angle Shades Richard !
A very good day birding Dungeness best of the bunch were
5 Whimbrel 2 Ruff 1 Hobby and 2 black tailed Godwits from the RSPB reserve and best of all a pair of Red crested Pochard (found by Nicky) from the Kerton road gravel pit .
These are superb images well done(bit jealous of your moth 👍)
Another great day birding for Nicky and I .There was a Black-winged stilt reported on the hayfields at Dungeness RSPB that behaved very well for us .Also nice to see Sedge warblers whitethroat and swallows all out in force today .
What a superb couple of days . Well done and wow !!
Superb Tom Nicky and I are so pleased that you got your place there !!
Nicky and I had a red letter day today starting at Sissinghurst castle with superb views of Marsh Tits then back to our local patch Dungeness just in time to see one of the 2 Purple Herons. Finished the evening off seeing Black redstart ,Little ringed plover and sedge warbler .
I could not resist posting another image of yesterdays Iberian Chiff chaff that I took at South view Dungeness . The bird found by Dave Bunney showed well . As the afternoon slipped by the bird called several times and eventually a short but clear song was heard
Dungeness today seeing the Iberian Chiffchaff at South view and in great company .Hearing it calling several times and singing for a few moments. Viewing is currently being allowed by the home owner so please treat this with respect and only park on the roadside not the gravel drive.
The Power station Dungeness gave us black redstart & peregrine. The reserve a bittern flying past the viewpoint and 2 bearded tits on the grit tray there .The flooded path to hookers produced 9 bearded tits and 6 white-fronted geese . Dengemarsh hide marsh harriers and a black necked grebe .
Superb image as ever Mick .
4 Tundra bean geese Scotney double bends
