North Kent
An interesting day surveying an area on the North Kent coast. The weather brought kindness in abundance, the strong May sun tempered slightly by a gentle breeze. It was great making tracks around the survey lines that covered eight miles in total. Bird of the day went to a Nightingale that sang briefly within a large hawthorn and was always out of view. A couple of Cuckoo were calling within the vicinity with one later seen flying low along the old sea wall. There were plenty of vocal Warblers including a couple of Lesser Whitethroat , with Common Whitethroat and Reed Warbler plentiful. Just one Sedge Warbler was noted during the course of the day. There was a bit of interest on the receded tide. A single Avocet looked forlorn in one of the bays, where a Common Sandpiper flicked low along the shoreline. A stunning adult summer Grey Plover was accompanied by two not so dapper individuals with a Whimbrel and two Turnstone ...