Déjà vu at Pegwell Bay Friday 29th October

Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously !

Well guess what that was one of these days !

Spent the afternoon around the Pegwell Bay area and the usual candidates were on view Dunlin,Turnstone,Curlew,Knot,Bar-Tailed Godwit,Shelduck,Golden Plover,Grey Plover,Redshank,Little Egret,Rock Pipit,Kestrel,Magpie,Goldfinch,Mallard,Grey Heron,Wren,Chaffinch,Starling,Swallow,Carrion Crow,Blue Tit,Robin,Song Thrush,Blackbird,Collared Dove,Wood Pigeon,Black-Headed,Common,Lesser Blacked-Back,Great Black-Backed,Herring and Yellow Legged Gull and shielding itself from the wind on Shellness Point a female Merlin.

PRIVIT  BERRY'S

CURLEW

GOLDEN PLOVER

SLOE

RUSH

WEEKEND AT PEGWELL BAY & HAM FEN

PEGWELL BAY EARLY MORNING

This weekend I spent a lot of time at Pegwell with the promise of the wind changing and the possibility of something interesting being blown in ! As with most weekends the Peregrine was flying over the Bay lifting most of the Lapwing,Golden Plover & Dunlin. Redshanks and Curlews continued to feed oblivious to the commotion.

CURLEW

REDSHANK

A walk around Ham Fen only threw up a group of 10 Long Tailed Tits and a solitary Merlin then headed back to Pegwell Bay.

Last walk around the Bay and spotted a Short-Eared Owl before heading back home.

SHORT-EARED OWL

LITTLE EGRETS

PEGWELL BAY

Others on the list for this weekend included Little Egret,Fieldfare,Greenfinch,Goldfinch,Wigeon,Chaffinch,Redwing,Great Black Backed Gull,Black Headed Gull,Herring Gull,Jay,Magpie and when I arrived home a Great Spotted Woodpecker which was in back garden feeding on the Peanut Feeder.

FEMALE GREY SQUIRREL RAIDS THE BIRD FEEDER !

Popped home today to find once again the local female Grey Squirrel keeping away all the usual birds from the Bird Feeder !

EASTERN GRAY OR GREY SQUIRREL

SUNNY DAY AT PEGWELL

Quick walk down to Pegwell Bay along the Cliff top with my daughter on this sunny day.

First sighting was a Silver Y Moth along the Cliff top walk

SILVER Y MOTH

Not much to see due to a high tide but once down on the beach spotted a group of Turnstone's searching for invertebrates along the shore.

TURNSTONE

Further along a lone Redshank feeding amongst the Turnstone's and the Pied Wagtail from the previous blog.

REDSHANK

 Walking back towards the Cliff top passed a Peacock Butterfly with its striking eye spots sunning itself on the chalk path.

PEACOCK BUTTERFLY

Further along the chalk beach path a group Pointed Snails around 10mm in length feeding on the vegetation.

POINTED SNAIL

Our commonest Ladybird the Seven-Spot seen along the Cliff top walk as well as the Large White Butterfly

SEVEN-SPOT LADYBIRD 

LARGE WHITE BUTTERFLY

A WALK TO PEGWELL BAY

Last minute decision to walk to Pegwell Bay along the beach before the tide was fully in this morning.

Usual waders were seen Curlew,Oyster Catcher,Turnstone,Lapwing,Shelduck,Little Egret,Black-Headed Gull and Herring Gull.



Black-Headed Gull

Black-Headed Gull

Pied Wagtail

Pied Wagtail