Tuesdays evening beach watch was uneventful as was hoping to see a Roseate Tern seen in the evening on Sunday and despite 2 hours of looking through the hundreds of Terns and Gulls. I didn't pay much attention to the waders other than the Avocets that now had chicks and the first Black-headed Gull chicks.
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| Black-headed Gull Chicks guarded by a Common Tern |
Apart from 3 Cuckoos feeding along the environment agency road little else.
At home a surprise was this Green Woodpecker in our garden, although many have been heard this is the first to actually been seen and stay long enough to to get a pic albeit through the window.
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| Green Woodpecker. |
Bank Holiday this weekend, last year at this time there were large numbers of waders on Pett Level. I said to Paula that i think something rare will turn up this weekend, hoping for a Bee-eater or Hoopoe I set the Birdguides Text to all reports in Kent, East and West Sussex. On Saturday reports of Bee-eater and Bonapartes Gull in north Kent came through and then when I decided to go off and put weedkiller on a clients garden, half way through the job a report of a Terek Sandpiper at Rye Harbour. There was little choice stay finish the job or go, decision made I went. Enroute a text from Barry Yates confirming still there and within 30 minutes I was watching a patch of reeds and eventually it showed but distant.
Thanks to a Redshank, Coote and an Avocet they flushed the bird towards the dozen or so birders watching.
Within a couple of minutes another Avocet flushed it and it flew towards the Ternery Pool. Job done I headed for home, back at the car park birders were arriving, I believe it was seen till at least 8pm but next morning could'nt be found.
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