Friday
28th December 2007 Deal Pier
A Harbour Porpoise rolled on the
surface a couple of times as it headed south past the pier at 08.58hrs. I
thought it quite unusual in December, especially with the amount of west in
the wind. (Dylan)
Sunday
23rd December 2007 Minster Marshes Thanet
I was fortunate to find a young Fox
hunting the reeded ditch on the far side of a trackside field, by squeaking
(sucking through closed lips!) I lured the Fox across the
field and within 15m of where I was crouched. It must have been very hungry
to react like this in daylight. A Brown Rat
was the only other mammal seen today. (Dylan)
Sunday 16th December 2007 Thanet Area
Whilst aimlessly cycling around, I came across a nice
selection of the common Thanet Ferns on a wall in Broadstairs. On this
particular wall, there was an abundance of Hart's-tongue Fern, with a
small number of Black Spleenwort and Wall Rue - the latter
being by far the commonest Fern on Thanet. On a flint wall at nearby North
Foreland, the scarcer Intermediate Polybody could be seen in some
numbers. (F Solly)
Friday 14th December 2007 Stodmarsh NNR
A very brief visit to Stodmarsh, primarily to collect
some leaf mines, produced a rather unseasonal specimen of Angelica in
flower. (F Solly)
