FEBUARY 2023

 A very dry month with some good sunny days but a cold NE wind at the end.

KESTREL LANGDON HOLE

BARN OWL hunting Rest Harrow Dunes.

Female BLACKCAP in garden.

SHOVELLER Stodmarsh

BEAVERS AT WORK -STODMARSH

LAPWINGS-STODMARSH

WIGEON -PEGWELL.

CORMORANT -DOVER HARBOUR

PINTAIL -OARE

GREENSHANK -OARE CREEK

GREEN SHANK.

NYK  VESTA  INTO THE THAMES ESTUARY

Imm DRAKE SCAUP & TUFTED DUCK -CAMBER in the fog.

GOLDENEYE -DUNGENESS RSPB

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CATTLE EGRET- DUNGENESS

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RED KITE -GODMERSHAM PARK

BUZZARD -GODMERSHAM PARK

STONECHAT -Worth 

A distant male HAWFINCH -Godmersham

LITTLE OWL at Godmersham

JANUARY 2023

New year same as the last,out and about here and there trying to catch up with the local birds.

TUFTED DUCK -BUSHY RUFF  Kearsney.

COMMON SEAL -Loafing near Dover Lifeboat

SHORT EARED OWL -SANDWICH BAY

HUMES LEAF WARBLER remains in PENCESTER GARDENS DOVER.

GREY HERON -KEARSNEY ABBEY.

PALLAS` WARBLER -SWALECLIFFE

SNOW BUNTING - RECULVER One of a small flock of eight birds.

SNOW BUNTING.

NUTHATCH

NUTHATCH

NUTHATCH

NUTHATCH

PURPLE SANDPIPER - BROADSTAIRS

SISKIN female STODMARSH

SISKIN male STODMARSH

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LONG TAILED TIT - STODMARSH.

WHITE STORK RETURNS TO WORTH MARSHES.

WHITE STORK.

SNIPE -RESTHARROW SCRAPE.

HMS MERSEY ON PATROL OFF SAMPHIRE HOE .

 

DECEMBER 2022

  The Short Eared Owls have been attracting large audiences along the Ancient Highway at Sandwich again this month and social media sites have been flooded with some fabulous photos.Unfortunately some toggers have been wandering on to the golf course to get closer to the birds instead of waiting for the birds to come to them,this will no doubt lead to more fences being put up,time will tell.

Not much else to report apart from a Humes Leaf Warbler being found in Pencester Gardens in the middle of Dover in exactly the same place that the YBW was found a few years back.

Samphire Hoe is always quiet at this time of year unless it gets really cold then a few interesting birds can show up Paul found several Snipe and Woodcock during the recent cold snap.

A HAMBURG SUD CONTAINER SHIP.

BARN OWL at SANDWICH BAY.

STONECHAT female.

STONECHAT male clour ringd blue/yellow

A SAMPHIRE HOE ROBIN

REED BUNTING at PEGWELL BAY.

SHORT EARED OWL

SHORT EARED OWL

REDWING in my garden.

BLACKBIRDS in the garden.

SONG THRUSH in my garden.

HUMES LEAF WARBLER -This was my 201 st bird of the year not a bad tally all things cosidered. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS.