SHADES OF GREY

A beautiful sunny sunday morning on Langdon Cliffs would have been uneventful if it had not been for the arrival of a superb great grey shrike.It was first sighted briefly before taking flight but was relocated a few minutes later it hung around for about ten minutes before flying towards the radar masts at Swingate.

GREAT GREY SHRIKE in LANGDON HOLE

GREAT GREY SHRIKE.
While on the subject of great grey birds a visit to Dunge last thursday left me with a conundrum,assuming that a great egret had been photographed from the path near the raptor viewing mound ,I thought no more about it and went on to see the long tailed duck from the Hanson hide;when the pictures were downloaded however it was clear something was not quite right and I think this bird is a leucistic grey heron.

GREY HERON?? Any thoughts?
The yellow legged gull had been seen near the fishing boats earlier and had paraded on a nearby roof by doing a goose step.

GOOSE STEP GULL

HERRING GULL A5WR AT DUNGENESS

GREY PARTRIDGES (ancient highway)