Monday 20 November 2017

Dungeness Dartford Warblers.Plus Great Egrets

With the weather set fair the three of us head off to our old favourite Dungeness, not been there much this year due to the traffic problem that we have encounted when heading back from there.
We heard that 2 Dartford Warblers had been seen around the area by the Britannia Public house, so we set about finding them & drive around that area.
Jimmy spots a Stonechat & we think that the Warblers would be some where near to that, & it's not long before we find one of the Warblers around the bottom of the bushes.
We stay in the car & the bird came near to us for a few photos & the other one soon shows as well so a good start to the day.
Off to have a look from the hide where we see 2 Great white Egrets & something that I had not seen before when a Marsh Harrier landed on a branch & then dropped into the water & just hung about there for 20 minutes or more.
A Kingfisher showed on &off but only usual stuff apart from that.
A walk on the beach watching the Gulls was nice. A report says that 6 Jack snipe had been seen at Elmley so with Brian needing a tick we head off but after a few drives up & down the main track it's a dip. We do sea a few Marsh Harrier & a group of Red-legged Partridge but not a lot about despite there being a fair amount of water about.
The Dartford Warbler
Dartford Warbler
Great White 
One of the Red-legged Partridge
One more of the Warbler






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