Spoonbill & Black redstart Dungeness.

Up & out by 5 am & up on the beach at Dunge by 6 30, a very quite morning with very little passing through apart from Gannets & a few Terns & the odd Auk.
So off we head to look for Black Redstart that would get both Jimmy & myself a year tick.
A search of the fence around the power station eventually gets us onto a couple of Black Redstart for a good tick.
A walk around the trapping area once again is very quite with just Whitethroat & Dunnock about the only birds showing.
I have a quick look at the moth trap at the observatory & get a couple of photos & while there looking at the notice board I see that a couple of Spoonbill have been seen over the back of Scotney gravel pit, so as we had missed a few a couple of weeks ago in Norfolk we must head over there.
At first we find it hard to find them on the first pit so we move down the road to the other pit & Brian thinks he has spotted them, so with the car parked off the road the scope soon picks 2 Spoonbill out for another tick. We head off to look for the bean field in Cheyne to look or at least hear some Quail, it turns out to be a wild goose chase as we don't really know where we are heading, after spending some time searching we decide to give up & head home  with just the two ticks in the bag.

Spoonbill

The Moths