CLOUD NUMBER NINE

 What a week, patching birding has many many lows and not many highs BUT when the highs happens it is like being on cloud number nine,late this afternoon mike turns up and i was scanning the island and counting the ring plovers and just called KENTISH PLOVER this the first view i had and it made mike doubt the shout

but when you look with a btx it always seems closer lol lol,we edge closer and closer and got some brillant views

then all the birds got up and flew past but landed a bit further away

just before i left my 2nd osprey sighting of the was just catching its tea

what a blinding golden patch at moment the last kentish plover at seasalter  was found by mike 9/8/2010 and the long rock bird was 28/3/2013 

PATCH BIRDING AT IT BEST

 Few birds from this week and last bringing my yearly total for seasalter 158 and still the best time to come,the manx was a big bonus lucky enough there at the right time found by my friend andy,school boy error on the glossy ibis picked them up flying across from the cormorant roost,thinking they was cormorants penny dropped when they flew over the wall in front of me lol

2 little stints and curlew sand which later turned into 3 

brent goose

shrill carder

kingfisher

juv hobby

manxs shearwater

glossy ibis

LONG TIME AWAY

 Nice to be back after have a couple of years away,At last settled into my new job and stop changing shops, so now i am based in bearstead doing hours i wanted,so couple of years away nothing really new,so this will blog will dairy my birding around seasalter,this week i been on holiday a few shots from this week

likely enough to get some superb views of the osprey that has been on the swale for the last,i had missed the bird a few times even in the morning, when me and mike was doing our bee survey for the solar farm,one off the workers had it sitting on the fence,so i headed to castle coote in the afternoon for high tide while i was on the phone discussing a tern with martyn post photo later on the whole of castle coote erupted,so quickly end the call,the osprey headed my way then hovered in front of me gripping stuff so fired of loads of shots 

little tern

whimbrel 

NEW JOB

 New job has changed a lot for me for 2023 a bit of a rethink of my plans,still doing seasalter as a patch with mike but only wednesdays and sundays,but still finding stuff 

short eared owl 

male hen harrier 

on up side i went out a bought a new moth trap as i will not be getting up at silly oclock for work

yet to catch a moth in 2023,so more trapping but no doubt will change when the light evenings are here

JUST THE ONE

 Just the one happy with that hard work river was a bit mucky and leaves flow down,made it a bit hard work,new spot on the river up by cdaa head quarters and i fish down to the bridge had one smash early on,then nothing changed fly and added a 2g weight bingo a 70cm jack pike 

i packed up and move to fordwich driving up the track,a on coming van as a kind person i am,i pulled in saw the number plate and it was dylan driving out,quick hour up on the river resulted in nothing i called it a day,always another day for the big girl