Temminck's Stint & Wood Sandpiper.

We give the bird fair at Rutland a miss this year & head to Dungeness  to find me a Wood Sandpiper.

Off we set at 5 o'clock & we are up on the beach by 6,30 there is very little wind & a bit of a mist about.

Not much about it's to still & calm but I do get a year tick when we see 7 Black Tern passing through.

A couple of hours later we head to the reserve, in the frith hide for only a minute when we see a Wood Sandpiper, soon another one joins it along with a Green Sandpiper & a couple of Ringed Plover plus Ruff.

So the wait is over for me a Wood Sandpiper at last & just like buses two come along together.

Off now to Oare Marsh we hope the Temminck's Stint has hung about for one more day for us, as we drive down the road a group of birders were already on the target bird, so we get onto it without any trouble at all another Lifer for me & a year tick for Jimmy.

Two Woods

Sympetrum striolatum  Red darter

While here we see our first Clouded Yellow Butterfly, so one lifer 3 year ticks & a lifer Butterfly not a bad day out.

Wood Sandpiper at last