Trip reports

Coach Trip to Dungeness

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Warm sunshine greeted us at RSPB Dungeness. We spent the morning walking round the reserve, seeing a good variety of wildfowl and waders together with three slavonian grebes (one on the main reserve, two on the ARC pit), marsh harriers and what for many was the first summer visitor of the year, a wheatear. We moved on to Dungeness village, where a black redstart at the Observatory proved rather elusive but we did get great views of a juvenile Iceland gull, a first for many of us! A great day was completed as a barn owl posed for us at the side of the road as the coach set off for Hertfordshire.

As ever, a list of the species seen (77 in total) can be loaded as a Word document from the web site www.roystonwildlife.com.