Lodge Lane has been the best place to see it from,we give it a good couple of hours but there is no sign & no reports on the pager of it being anywhere else on the reservoir.
We do pick up a Black Tern for a tick.
News of a Kentish Plover comes on the pager & it's only 30 miles away at Walton-on the Naze at a place called Stone point,so this pair of idiots drive to the Naze to be told that the Point is a two hour walk & we would have to watch out for the in coming tide, so that's a no go for me,as it turns out a couple of birders that had walked down there tell us that it's a false lead & there is no sign of any Plover so don't waste our time.So not the best day birding that we have ever had but one tick is better than none.
On Monday another Kentish Plover is reported nearer to home at Pitstone Quarry on the Herts Bucks
border.
So 50 minutes later we have found the roundabout where we have been asked to park along the grass verges, we are now only a hundred yards away from the crowd that had gathered to see the Plover over looking the Quarry.
The bird was very hard to find as it was right over the far bank & was walking about on light sand but a fellow gets us onto it to give us a great tick after yesterdays failure.
Even then if you came off the Plover it was really hard to get back onto it.People were arriving all the time & it was a large crowd with cars parked all around the verges & I must say what a nice group of people they were.
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| A long way off the Kentish Plover |
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| Some of Birders plus my head & Jimmy's arm |
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| Where the Plover was seen over looking Pitstone Quarry |
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