Hamstreet in the parish of Orlestone is on the edge of the Romney Marsh. The main aim of this blog is to record the birds that I see in my garden,in Hamstreet and the surrounding area. As my knowledge grows other fauna and flora will be recorded. I also travel around Kent to look at birds and will post some of my sightings/trips.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Mad 45 minutes at Dung
Day off today and before catching up on all the chores I decided an early start at Dung to kick the day off.
Arrived at the point at 5:45 and with Martin and the others off to Holland I had the place to myself. I had only just got my scope up and the birds started flowing and for the next 45 minutes I had the following.
4 Arctic Skuas (east) all close in
21 Little Tern (east)
12 Sanderling (east)
111 Scoter (east)
40 Scoter (west)
2 Swallows in
1 Hobby in
6 Oystercatcher (east)
1 Arctic Tern (east)
Many Common Tern, in the hundreds
Many Gannets
Then at 6:30, nothing, apart from a few scoter (included above, Common Tern and Gannets it all went quiet. I hung around for another hour and a couple of others turned up but we all gave up.
Looked around the moat, had a Black Redstart and a few of the now resident Whitethroats but not much else around. About half an hour after I left someone reported a Serin but missed that one. Not a bad morning, much better then I expected.
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