OCTOBER 2024

 Here is a short pictorial of the months best outings.

LONG TAILED TIT -LANGDON CLIFFS

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WALL BROWN -PROBABLY A THIRD GENERATION OF THE YEAR.

MIGRANT HAWKER

SPOONBILL -NOW A REGULAR SIGHT AT OARE

LITTLE STINT AT OARE -dwarfed by a RINGED PLOVER

LITTLE STINT

BLACK REDSTART AT SAMPHIRE HOE

BLACK NECKED GREBE -GARAGE POOLS PEGWELL.

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KITTIWAKE -DOVER HARBOUR

Record shot of RING OUZEL at Samphiore Hoe

PEACOCK

STONECHAT

REDPOLL -BOCKHILL 

SPARROWHAWK Kingsdown Leas.

RED THROATED DIVER -DOVER HARBOUR

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DUNLIN RINGED PLOVER AND SANDERLING -SWALECLIFFE

SANDWICH TERN -SWALECLIFFE

BRENT GEESE

TURNSTONE

OYSTERCATCHER - with a twisted bill.

GOLDFINCH ON TEASLE

GOLDFINCH.

70000 BRITANNIA AT DOVER PRIORY WITH GOLDEN ARROW.

SEPTEMBER 2024

 September, our summer visitors are leaving us for warmer climes,the winter residents are starting to arrive,butterflies are enjoying the last sunny days of autumn.

LARGE WHITE 

WHINCHAT -A close relative of the Stonechat is a summer visitor,several have been seen at Samphire Hoe this month.

WASP SPIDER AT SAMPHIRE HOE

WHINCHAT

COMMON DARTER

HOLLAND AMERICA LINE NIEUW STATENDAM SAILIND DOWN CHANNEL.

BLACK REDSTARTS HAVE BRED SUCCESFULLY AGAIN AT THE HOE

WHEATEARS CAN APPEAR IN SMALL GROUPS AT THE HOE BEFORE CROSSING TO FRANCE AND ON TO AFRICA.

WHEATEAR FEMALE

A LATE COUPLING OF COMMON BLUES

THE CHOUGHS ARE SEEN REGULARLY IN THE FIELDS OFF REACH RD.

LARGE WHITE -FEMALE

SCARLET IBIS AT STODMARSH A PRESUMED ESCAPE FROM HOLLAND OR BELGIUM

COMMA

SMALL COPPER

SANDWICH TERN

MEDITERRANEAN GULLS AT GREATSTONE

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NUMBERS OF ROBINS INCREASE A LOT IN THE AUTUMN WITH THE ARRIVAL OF BIRDS FROM THE CONTINENT 

WHINCHAT  a very wary bird not easy to get close to.

SPOTTED FLYCATCHER AT SAMPHIRE HOE on Migration Day 28/9

ADONIS BLUE

ADONIS BLUE

CHOUGHS SEEM TO BE DOING WELL.

 TTFN.