More Hoopoe (farthing down)

A second go at this cracking bird in more favouriable weather conditions resulted in slightly better pics than yesterdays, where the bird is favouring the path just north of the car-park.

London Hoopoe

A slight divert to work this evening led me to Farthing Down just south of Coulsden where this little beauty had now taken up residence and was surprisingly only my second ever in the London recording area following a bird a Rainham last spring, unfortunately the weather was fowl, so my excuses for this pic!!

London Hoopoe

A small divert on the way to work this evening

Mayesbrook today

A few Willow Warbler's around today and a single Swift thru, and nice to see the first little Egret of the autumn.

Subalpine Warbler - Holland Haven

Just back from filthy twitching this superb bird, and my first in Essex, having seen seven others in Kent, Norfolk, Dorset and Scilly and have all been males bar one.

The Bird is favouring the Large hedgerow in the Holland Haven CP car-park and was also quite vocal at times and showed well distantly.

some heavily cropped record shots.

Sparrowhawk's

Visited Mayesbrook Park this afternoon and a very vocal juv Sparrowhawk was seen with both parents near bye.

Also still half a dozen Swifts and now 4 Egyptian Geese.

Wind Swept Kent

A trip to Dungeness started promising with Balearic Shearwater and Pom skua early on, as well as several Arctic skua two each of Little and Black Terns along side hundreds of Common, Sandwich and a few Arctic terns all going west.

Good number of Harbour Porpoise moving through also.

A search for Lesser Emperor dragonfly along the long pits was unsuccessful probably due to high winds, and the Great white egret failed to show on the RSPB reserve.

We then headed to Elmey where an immature Purple Heron had been reported several days now but again we drew with a blank.