KOS Weekly Highlights: the first Yellow-browed Warblers of the autumn, more Phalarope, a Glossy Ibis and a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers. Read all details on kentos.org.uk where you can also find information on the Big Kent Bird Migration Day this Sunday. #kentbirding

Dungeness - late yesterday (23.9.26) afternoon a flock of Knot over the beach, near the Lifeboat Station.

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Another excellent arrival of warblers today with the headline birds being 300 Chiffchaff and 135 Blackcap, the best otherwise just a Firecrest and a couple of Redstart. The rise of Blue Tits continued with 70 recorded today. Overhead there were 750 Swallow but otherwise quiet. #kentbirding

My first Red-throated diver of the Autumn was fishing off #Ramsgate Port rocks and drifting further along westcliff yesterday afternoon. 🙂 #Kentbirding

On the way home, found at least 3 Grey Partridge lying low, virtually invisible, in a cornfield stubble at Wichling, Doddington. #kentbirding #kentnature

Immature & adult Little Gulls at the ARC pit, Dungeness last week.
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Overhead passage was limited to 1100 Swallow, 60 Sand Martin, two Tree Pipit and 320 Meadow Pipit. Offshore seemed quiet apart from a feeding flock of 24 Balearic Shearwaters that fed offshore before going quickly west #kentbirding

Dungeness this afternoon from the Fishing Boats, besides watching a flock of 17 Balearic Shearwater drift past, there were a number of Arctic Skuas patrolling back and forth.

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Dungeness this evening, a Merlin trapped in the Moat at @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social
Big thanks to Jacob for putting the news out.
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A very good fall of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps with over 175 birds ringed this morning, all amongst a host of other species. Best of all being a showy Yellow-browed Warbler at the south end of the Trapping Area at around 11am ##kentbirding

RSPB Dungeness, the bird of the day found by @neilburt.bsky.social this morning at Dengemarsh, relocated this pm by @ploddingbirder.bsky.social
at Christmas Dell.

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Me and Lorna did the usual middle aged couple things this Sunday

Went to the rubbish tip and then a wander around a garden centre

Before strolling into the Dungeness RSPB reserve to catch up with Neil’s Pectoral Sandpiper this afternoon

Then a cup of tea back at the car

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Re. Buff-breasted Sandpipers, I recall 1 (or was it a pair?) at Blagdon Lake in October 1986. Then refrained from twitching to focus on my patch @sandwichbirdobs.bsky.social. Long wait until 17th Sept 2022 when Martin 'Radar' Sutherland found one on the shore - nearly bust a gut running #KentBirding

Come join us for the Big Kent Bird Migration Day at Dungeness Bird Observatory, it is only a week away! There will be plenty with a guided walk, migration watches, seawatching and bird ringing if the weather allows.

Today is full of Meadow Pipits with hundreds overhead and 101 ringed #kentbirding

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North Foreland this am 7am-11.20am;1 Brent (1st this autumn),27 C.Scoter,5 Barwits,6 Arctic Skuas,2 Guille 1 Kitt,5 Med Gulls,52 GBBGulls,16 Common, 49 S’wich Terns,5 R-t Diver,1 Manx S,62 Gannets.VisMig/Land;
2 Hobby,50 Swallow,170 H.Martin,4 Chiffs,2 G Wags,54 Mipits & 4 Tree Pipits #kentbirding

Pleasant seawatch off Herne Bay Downs this morning. 2 patch ticks included 1 Purple Sandpiper west and 2 Ruff west. Also 7 Arctic Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua, 1 Razorbill and 10 Mediterranean Gull. @kentishplover.bsky.social #kentbirding

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Another quiet morning at North Foreland 6.20-10am;1 Arctic Skua N,1 ‘large Auk’,52 GBBGulls,32 Common,13 Sandwich Terns,2 Red-t Divers,31 Gannets.
Vismig/Land;
5 Hobby in off,2.4K H.Martins, 3 Sand Martins,13 Swallows,1 Whinchat, 2 Grey,3 Yellow Wags, 32 Mipits,1 Tree Pipit. #kentbirding

An afternoon of wader twitching! Grey Phalarope Snodland and Pec Sand Bough Beech (water level v low). Latter never close enough for photo but "record shot" here for what it's worth. #kentbirding