Funny sort of weekend birding.

It's off to Dungeness again early Saturday morning,it's a bit misty early on but turns into a beautiful sunny day.
First up we hit the beach,the sea is calm with not a bit of wind.
The only tick we got was when a single Sandwich Tern is spotted going past the buoy.We missed a few Garganey & never saw the flock of Little Gulls that got reported later.
A drive around shows a lot more Wheatear than last week plus another Black Redstart but overall not a lot about.
We drive down to the visitor centre hoping for the first Sedge Warbler for us but not to be.
A visit to Dennis hide to look for a Garganey is a let down but we do see 4 Cattle Egret again.
Off to Oare to try for the Little Owl once again ends in disappointment.
On to Elmley on the way home to find lots of water but not much else.
So a funny sort of day with only one tick but always nice to be out birding.
Funny how things work out when an early look on Bird news tell us that a Garganey was on Jubilee pond on Wanstead Flats this morning, so after missing out yesterday we head to the flats that are only 20 minutes away from home.
After parking across the road from the pond we are onto the bird & get the best views of a Garganey that we have ever had.
So we end up with 2 ticks for the weekend & that is better than one.

Wanstead Garganey