3 ticks & a few Butterflies & Moths at Dungeness.

After 3 weeks of going nowhere birding we are happy to meet up with Brian for the 90 mile trip to one of our favourite places & where we head to when we need to get out birding.
On arrival we head to Hanson hide & within a few minutes we pick up 2 year ticks when the only other birder in the hide puts us onto a Little Stint & then we pick out a single Wood sandpiper that was nice as Jimmy & myself dipped on our last trip to find one.
So a good start to the day & nice to get the list moving again, a drive down to the reserve visitor centre gets us no Whinchat only a few Stonechat  & a family of Whitethroat was nice to see, the last few times of visiting the centre has been closed with just a note on the window that only says( closed
what is going on there.
On the drive back up the track we spot 5 Stoats & 2 Mink  running across the track, not what you want to see on a nature reserve I think, but it was still nice for us to see them.
Up to the beach by the boats hoping to find a Yellow-legged Gull, no luck with very little happening only 3 Common Scoter  a single Auk, the odd Gannet plus Sandwich & common Tern.
So we try up by the power station near the hide & soon pick out 2 Yellow-legged Gulls for another tick. No close photos of birds so had to make do with the Butterflies & Moths.

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Hawk Moth

The rest of the morning we spend looking at Moths & Butterflies before getting home to watch the Arsenal at Wembley again.

Kestrel

A long way off the Little Stint