Ploddingbirder

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Mainly Dungeness birds and moths, sea watching.

Coxcomb Prominent Moth resting on a slate
2 Wood Sandpipers feeding along the surf line of a shingle island
Common Gull with newly fledged young, on an island viewed from Dennis's picnic area.
Ni Moth resting on a slate.
Drake and Duck Garganey feeding on the ARC Pit viewed from Hanson Hide
Purple Marbled Moth resting on a slate
Dialectica scalariella
Striped Hawkmoth on Hazel hedge
2 Dunlin with a Little Stint which is the right hand bird
A fresh Striped Hawkmoth resting on a slate
A Maple Prominent moth resting on piece of slate.
A Maple Pug moth resting on an egg carton.
Hummingbird Hawkmoth nectaring on a White Buddleia
Euchromius ocellae moth, in an egg carton. An immigrant species.
Acrobasis tumidana
Party of 8 Sanderling feeding on the shoreline.
Marbled Clover
Light Crimson Underwing on an old egg carton
Tree Sparrows
Concrete road on the sea wall with danger warning sign.
Bright Wave
Caspian Tern
Caspian Tern
Quail singing
Horrhound Plume
Barn Owl hunting over the rough field margins.
Silver Barred
Squacco Heron fishing from Lilly Pads and caught a small fish.
A newly fledged Black Redstart on the power station wall.
Carrion Crow plundering the eggs of a Great-crested Grebe
Common Swift
Cetti's Warbler sunbathing on a brash pile
Sedge Warbler creeping down the fence to the water
Striped Hawkmoth
Striped Hawkmoth
Little Ringed Plover sitting on shingle brooding her 3 chicks.
Eastern Bordered Straw
Small Marbled
First Summer male Golden Oriole in a Sallow Tree
A Concololous Moth
Red-tipped Clearwing
Greenish Warbler in the trapping area
A well fed male Peregrine
Singing male White-spotted Bluethroat
Hobby basking in the sunshine in the shelter of the Willow Trail.
Great-crested Grebe with fish for young
Little Tern
Hobby hawking over a small lake
Southern Marsh Orchid
Bittern in flight over a reed bed
House Martin
Temminck's Stint on Boulderwall Flood
A dark phase Pomarine Skua passing the Dungeness Bouy this morning in very hazy conditions
Iberian Chiffchaff in a Sallow
Turtle Dove in set aside field
Little Ringed Plover