Monday 28th June 2010 Ramsgate
One of the Herring Gulls nesting on our roof in
Duncan road, is sporting an Orange Colour Ring TM1T (Nick Lever)
Wednesday 2nd June 2010 Pegwell Bay
Down just after 10am to a surprise NW wind and broken cloud. Common
Swifts were building in numbers (140) over the wheat fields and over the
Farm at Cliffsend, 2 Hobbies north towards Newington at 10.45am. Down
on to Pegwell for a raptor watch but no joy and gave up just after an hour.
With the tide still way out i had a walk round the bushes to kill some time,
some counts were taken including; 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Sedge
Warbler, 6 Reed Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler,
2 Lesser Whitethroat, c20 Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, 3
Willow Warbler, 14 Magpie, 10 Rooks but still no Turtle
Doves! Overhead today 60 Common Swifts north, 45 Swallow north
and 17 House Martin north. On the incoming tide, 107 Oystercatcher,
17 Ringed Plover, 3 Grey Plover, 5 Knot, 15 Dunlin,
3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 28 Curlew, 13 Black-headed Gull, 1
Common Gull, 116 Herring Gulls, 1 2s Yellow-legged Gull
and 3 Sandwich Tern. (Craig Sammels)
Tuesday 1st June 2010 Cliffsend, Pegwell
A
nose around the cliff-top fields, taking in behind the Shell and the
hover-pad before the onset of the forecast rain band. As you would expect at
this time of year but still nice to be out. Most notable thing this morning
was a first summer Caspian Gull just off the hover-pad at 10.10, then
flew out to the tide line, my first June record. Interesting there's been 2
1s Caspar's at Dungeness recently. Little else, 2 Lesser Whitethroat,
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Reed Warbler (Hover-pad), Whitethroat,
Blackcap etc. A male Wheatear around the reservoir, Yellow
Wagtail and c15 Swallows, and 36 Common Swifts over the
fields with the cloud cover, 2 Green Woodpeckers and 3 Grey
Partridges in the paddocks together with a mob of noisy young
Starlings. Looking forward to the sun in the coming days. (Craig
Sammels)
