ROSE COLOURED SPECTACLE

Dungeness Friday a quiet but nonetheless interesting day,quite superb weatherwise,started at the point with an hours seawatch,a few skuas lots of terns a little gull at the patch and a lot of swallows heading out to sea.
There was not a lot to be seen at the obs so it was off to the ARC pits and the RSPB Reserve,again it was fairly quiet until Dengemarsh where there were 8 bearded tits,,3 snipe ,2 greenshank,a hobby,lots of swallows and sand martins,and the great white egret showed well.It was at this point when an incoming text alerted us to a juvenile ROSE COLOURED STARLING back at the Obs.It was an opportunity not to be missed so back to the car and back to the point,the bird had obviously moved to near the new lighthouse by the time we arrived,as three or four birders had it in view there.It continued to give good views intermitently,but not close enough for anything but record shots.

ROSE COLOURED STARLING with normal starling on left.

JUVENILE ROSE COLOURED STARLING DUNGENESS 23.09.2011

REED WARBLER ARC PITS

LITTLE EGRET ARC PITS

JUV BEARDED TIT

MALE BEARDED TIT DENGEMARSH. Although the young starling is not the most impressive bird most will never see it is a fairly rare occurence for one to turn up in Kent,and it was a first ever for me ,so it made the day a memorable one.