AROUND THE VERNAL EQUINOX

I have just watched a film called The Big Year,a salutary tale of obsessive twitching and where it can lead,be warned all of you boys doing the big year yourselves.

NEW MOON

In the mean time have had a few trips out despite the springlike weather.

GREY PLOVER

 OYSTERCATCHER

RINGED PLOVER
The above were seen on a brief walk along the sea wall at Reculver

SHAG,still a few hanging around Dover Harbour last weekend.

TUFTED DUCK Stodmarsh

50 BRENT GEESE flying east past Samphire Hoe

HARBOUR PORPOISE were very much in evidence in the calm waters off the Hoe on Tuesday

MEDITERRANEAN GULL this superb bird took a fancy to Franks left overs

F231 HMS ARGYLL going down channel
The reports of Black necked &Slavonian grebes at Seaton led to a brief afternoon trip there in a chill damp easterly breeze on Wednsday afternoon,of course they were on the far side of the lake,but at least  they were together.

DISTANT FUZZY GREBES

Had to go to Deal on Thursday to buy tickets for a gig at the Astor theatre,so popped in to Rest Harrow,hoping for a garganey,the teal of spring but had to make do with the usual teal,shoveller and tufties,one of which did a swim by the hide.

Today,Friday I braved the biting easterly wind and walked along the PoW pier and was rewarded with about ten Sandwich Terns feeding in the inner harbour.

SANDWICH TERNS

JUVENILE KITTIWAKE