OCTOBER FEST

The weather outside is frightful and has been all month,although there have been a few good birds in Kent I have contrived to miss most of them.

I mentioned in the last post about some juvenile Red Backed Shrikes being very confiding, well this one has been entertaining Kent birders at St Marys Bay for the last few weeks.

RED BACKED SHRIKE

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-RED BACKED SHRIKE

Also at the same site someone found a solitary Shorelark 

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SHORELARK

Meanwhile on Worth Marshes a Great Grey Shrike has been hanging out on an off for most of the month,it has been respectful of social distancing unfortunately, but here is a record shot from distance,heavily cropped.

GREAT GREY SHRIKE.

JUVENILE RING OUZEL Langdon Hole

WHEATEAR AT SAMPHIRE HOE

A LONE TURNSTONE AT DOVER HARBOUR

GREEN WOODPECKER -LANGDON HOLE

ADULT MALE BLACK REDSTART - SAMPHIRE HOE

BLACK REDSTART

GREY PARTRIDGE - ANCIENT HIGHWAY DEAL/SANDWICH.

MALE STONECHAT- REST HARROW DUNES

October is a good month for Autumnal moths and I had the good fortune to find a Deaths Head Hawkmoth on the sea wall at Samphire Hoe.

It was kept safe during the day and released at dusk.

RED GREEN CARPET

GREEN BRINDLED BEAUTY

GBB

MERVEILLE DU JOUR

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PALPITA VITREALIS or OLIVE TREE PEARL

VESTAL

RED GREEN CARPET

THE GREEN PARTY.

NOVEMBER MOTH

THE MALLOW MOTH

To end this months post a few weather scapes to welcome November and the next lockdown

SUNRISE AT ST MARYS BAY

EARLY MORNING ON THE WHITE CLIFFS

ANOTHER EARLY MORNING ON THE CLIFFS

SQUALL AT LITTLESTONE

LITTLESTONE BEACH

A DARK LOWERING SKY AT DUNGENESS.

THE HALLOWEEN BLUE MOON.