RSPB Dungeness
SE 20 to 24mph veering SSW 14 to 26mph by evening, 12C to 16C, light showers by evening, 100% cloud by midday.
A blustery wind but I was birding the ARC track to the Pines and noticing fewer Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps than previous days. Flurries of Swallows and House Martins were still heading south-west and a Hobby was foraging over the Tower Pits. Colin Turley was also at the Pines and we started to check out the Sallows near the Maple Trees that I now call the Pines Inlet. Chiffchaffs were calling and Colin and I were having a natter when I picked up a Yellow-browed Warbler calling nearby but out of sight. Despite it calling nine times poor Colin couldn't hear it and then it stopped calling. After a few minutes it flew in from the direction it had been calling from and with a loud call disappeared in a Sallow. Luckily Colin managed to see it before it disappeared. It remained mobile and called less and became difficult to see or hear. I think it eventually moved west across the track towards the Tower Pits.
A wander along the Willow Trail picked up more Chiffchaffs and a single Goldcrest. A count of 564 Shoveler and 26 Wigeon from Hanson Hide.
On Burrowes a few gulls were coming and going amongst them two 2nd winter and a 1st winter Caspian Gull. I also had a Kingfisher and a Grey Wagtail on Burrowes plus a further 408 Shoveler, although certainly more were lurking on the lee side of the islands out of the wind and out of view, and 142 Teal.
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