AUTUMN ALMANAC 2026

 After my Tanzanian marathon I needed a rest and I am sure you did too.The autumn migration gets underway as soon as the birds have completed their breeding duties with Swifts and adult Cuckoos among the first to leave.Passage birds can turn up anywhere but more often than not coastal sites are obviously more likelyto receive migrants.

HOOPOE FOUND AT ABBOTSCLIFFE 

17 YEARS AND ONE DAY AFTER THE SAMPHIRE HOE BIRD.

BLACK REDSTART AT SAMPHIRE HOE

FEMALE GARGANEY AT DUNGENESS

GREEN SANDPIPER IN THE RAIN AT STODMARSH

ONE OF THE DOVER CHOUGHS,Evidently they have bred successfully raisng 6 chicks this summer. 

WHEATEAR AT SAMPHIRE HOE

CURLEW SANDPIPER at Rest Harrow scrape.

COMMON SANDPIPER

WRYNECK an annual but elusive passage migrant,this one at Swalecliffe

Having a stretch.

WILLOW WARBLER at Samphire Hoe

WILLOW WARBLER

WHINCHAT at Samphire Hoe

WHINCHAT.

GOOSANDER ON THE RIVER DEE AT LLANGOLLEN NORTH WALES

A SECOND GOOSANDER

THE ELUSIVE DIPPER AT LLANGOLLEN IT TOOK 3 DAYS TO SEE.

BEARDED TITS AT STODMARSH

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WHEATEAR AT SANDWICH BAY

Thats about it for now =good birding folks/