THEY`VE GOT THE BLOOMING LOT

The waxwings have finally reached Dover,with 120 at Jewsons  at the weekend,doors floors and exotic birds,what more could you ask?more exotic birds I suppose.

BRAMBLING

BRAMBLING   Last Wednesday I had to stay in waiting for satellite dish repair and was repaid with a new bird for the garden in the form of a brambling,feeding along with chaffinches and greenfinches,a pair of bullfinch also showed.Goldfinch,a pair of blackcaps and great spotted woodpecker as well as the blue, great, and coal tits,were seen on the various feeders.

WAXWING (Folkestone)

GOOSANDER (female at Seabrook 2009)

SMEW(Holland 2009)

GOLDENEYE( taken earlier this year at Dunge)DOVER WAXWING

PUNK WAXWING

WAXWING

DUNGENESS POWER STATION

I was invited to accompany Malcolm Mcvail to Dungeness on Friday,and although feeling one degree under had a good day,highlights being Glaucous gull at the point,Goosander,Goldeneye and Smew at RSPB and 3 Bewick swans on Walland Marsh near the windfarm.
Sunday morning in Combe Valley Road watching the comings and goings of the waxwings,then a brisk walk along P o W pier where there was precisely 1 great crested grebe,left  me ready for an afternoons football and a hearty roast dinner.