28th March 2012 - Dungeness

Today was Dungeday again and I have returned very freckly with a hint of sunburn.  But mainly freckly.  Dungeness carried on being weirdly warm and I was actually able to remove 3 of my 6 layers as the day progressed.  We met up with Jono and The Hairy Birders at just before 7 (although they had gotten there a bit earlier) to do a bit of seawatching.  It was quite productive as lots of different birds were off on their travels and Stuart finally got to see a Red-throated Diver.  I was very excited about seeing a Porpoise, it added to my mammal list for the day of lots of bunny rabbits.  A spot of a Chiffchaff was great as it confirmed our earlier sighting on The Rye, but I'm going to count the one today as my first for the year.  We wandered over to the RSPB reserve to see what we could spot there and immediately got devoured by midges.  It was horrific.  However, we got a very decent list, including two of my favourites, Ringed Plover and Marsh Harrier.  A new lifer was seen high up in the sky, two Raven with their diamond shaped tails and at the same time our second Cetti's of the week (and life) made an appearance!  The day was rounded off with another lifer over at the ARC pit, a Water Pipit.


Cormorants doing nesty things.



Dungeness Beach
Dungeness RSPB
1
Meadow Pipit
Tree Sparrow
2
Great Crested Grebe
Reed Bunting
3
Red-throated Diver
Shoveler
4
Brent Goose
Magpie
5
Cormorant
Green Woodpecker
6
Pintail
Cormorant
7
Oystercatcher
Tufted Duck
8
Curlew
Black-headed Gull
9
Common Scoter
Lesser Black-backed Gull
10
Gannet
Shelduck
11
Mediterranean Gull
Gadwall
12
Teal
Long-tailed Duck
13
House Sparrow
Coot
14
Starling
Goldeneye
15
Linnet
Common Gull
16
Sand Martin
Oystercatcher
17
Tufted Duck
Pied Wagtail
18
Reed Bunting
Meadow Pipit
19
Chaffinch
Teal
20
Chiffchaff
Ringed Plover
21
Sparrowhawk
Wigeon
22
Carrion Crow
Lapwing
23
Black-headed Gull
Ruff
24
Magpie
Greylag Goose
25
White Wagtail
Chaffinch
26
Stonechat
Marsh Harrier
27

Canada Goose
28

Mallard
29

Buzzard
30

Little Grebe
31

Great Crested Grebe
32

Goldfinch
33

Pochard
34

Moorhen
35

Chiffchaff
36

Mute Swan
37

Raven – NEW FOR LIFE LIST!
38

Cetti’s Warbler
39

Linnet
40

Redshank
41

Little Egret
42

Water Pipit – NEW FOR LIFE LIST

My year list for 2012 comes to 119.


2 comments :

  1. Just to say nice blog, and Jen says hello!

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  2. Good report; just added my year list etc on to my blog. Hope Norfolk was good and you managed to find the Windham Arms. Jono

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