Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

Retired, Loves the sea & birding Dungeness. ploddingbirder.blogspot.co.uk Dungeness Joined October 2013

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Sussex Ornithology @SussexOrnitholo

3 months ago

For the first time since 2021, no Tawny Owl chicks were found in 25 nest boxes monitored by Sussex Barn Owl Group.☹️🦉 A worrying sign, possibly tied to prey shortages. This is being investigated with other groups. Full article here; tinyurl.com/44pakkhk

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James Dee - Birder in a campervan @james_dee

3 months ago

Does it sound like Eastern to those with experience? Sings at 5-6 secs

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Oops! Concrete and lenses don’t mix. Think this will be expensive.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Dungeness: Lovely to watch this Woodcock come in off the sea at 09.24 then land in front of the sea watch hide exhausted, it was still resting in the same spot at 12.30.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Dungeness: This evening's Starling roost at the ARC.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Dungeness: 3 Yellow-browed Warblers today, also 2 Siberian Chiffchaffs but rarest of all today on the peninsula was a Bullfinch it is certainly the first I have seen at Dungeness this year. Many thanks to @tom_wright16 of the DBO for the calls and messages.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Musotima nitidalis by the trap was the highlight of garnish’s catch 42 of 8. 3 S B Straws, 2 vitrealis & the usual Black Rustics.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Early afternoon bike ride to Scotney GP was quite productive. 2 Black-necked Grebes, 2 Green Sandpipers, a Little Owl and another Dartford Warbler, also 100s of Lapwing, Golden Plover and Wigeon, 5 Marsh Harriers also 3 Barnacle Geese the first I have seen since last Winter.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Dungeness: Some of the at least 8 Dartford Warblers I saw around the peninsular in the glorious sunshine one the fog lifted.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

2 nfs in my VC15 trap this morning, Feathered Thorn and Dark Chestnut, also a latish Dark Arches and more Vitealis, Radford's etc. @trapsite

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

10 months ago

Dungeness: Male Hen Harrier being escorted out to sea by a Crow this morning.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

Dungeness: SE 3-4 blowing just a pitiful 2 Balearic Shearwaters from 2 watches today of any note. Minimum 3 Dartford warblers in The Desert not much else. 5 Caspian Gulls on Burrowes this afternoon, 1 ad, 2 x 3W. a 2w and 1w + 2w Y L Gull and a Black-necked Grebe.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

3 Little Owls encountered on my cycle ride around my local patch.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

Dungeness: A brute of a 2w Caspian Gull and a 2w Yellow-legged Gull roosting on the new islands at Denge Marsh this afternoon. Also the gorgeous Yellow-browed Warbler trapped by @tom_wright16 at the observatory this morning, the 3rd this autumn.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

Dungeness: I was fortunate to be very close by when @LeyshonOwen found a pair of Bearded Tits in the Gorse and Bramble by the Polish Memorial.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

Dungeness: This mornings Leach's Petrel that flew West past the fishing boats.

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

I know it is probably from the IOW introduction scheme as it is sporting a backpack, but it is still a magnificent beast @RoyDennisWF Seen for a few minutes at Scotney Gravel Pits, just outside of Lydd, Kent this morning with @BenendenKent

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

Dungeness. The Sycamore that has hosted several Short-toed Treecreepers, Pallas’s, Yellow Browed and Melodious Warblers to name a few has been cut down. 😢

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Ploddingbirder @plodingbirder

11 months ago

I think I was the only moffa on the Dungeness peninsula not to be in the Radford’s Flame Shoulder club until this morning. Also 10 Delicate, a DSG, several Noctuella and Ferrugalis. VC15. @MigrantMothUK @mothsinkent @trapsite