RXwildlife Sightings

This time, not moths but birds. Two Buff-breasted Sandpipers have been present at Scotney GPs since at least Tuesday, still there at 11.15 today. Sometimes they’re together, at other times separate. Although usually with the hundreds of Golden Plovers and a dozen Ruffs a short way east of the Kent boundary, they may feed outside the plover flock in short grass, as one was yesterday afternoon, near the layby on the Lydd road. Is it just coincidence that a Buff-breasted turned up at the same place on 21 September 2009, or could that bird be one of these on another stopover?

The Environment Agency’s project at Rye Harbour has made progress and here is some video of the work - speeded up 8 times.

Highlights this morning included 35 Golden Plover on Flat Beach, waders feeding along the shore 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 9 Knot, 35 Dunlin, 5 Grey Plover and 150 Curlew. At Ternery Pool 2 Grey Wagtail passed overhead and 140 Linnet were on the shingle ridges. Yesterday 2 Arctic Skua were offshore.