James Armstrong
Flowerpot Man
Saw a couple of kestrels above the trees. Then on to the New Scrape where a lot of redigging and landscaping is in progress plus a wheelchair-friendly path to the hide from the road. Here things got a bit more exciting. Apart from lots of linnets and pippets on the scrape which isn't that exciting suddenly a sparrowhawk flew over pursued by three very angry crows who were mobbing it very determinedly and making lots of physical contact! Then as I was talking to Dave and Sam about the Pipit we saw at Cliffe Pools last week which we think might have been a water or rock pipit ( do you get water pipits this time of the year or only in the winter?) everybody else thirsty for tea and hungry for lunch disappeared around the corner just as A GREAT EGRET flew along the shore! 
Another tick! Quite a big one actually. We knew it wasn't a Little Egret because it had black not yellow feet and a yellow not a black bill and was as large as a grey heron. We later found one had been sighted in Pegwell bay the week before.
On that very cheerful note we went back to the Obs for lunch.
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james
Another tick! Quite a big one actually. We knew it wasn't a Little Egret because it had black not yellow feet and a yellow not a black bill and was as large as a grey heron. We later found one had been sighted in Pegwell bay the week before. On that very cheerful note we went back to the Obs for lunch.
More to follow...
james
