Fourteen of us gathered at the Old Lighthouse, Dungeness, on a very cold but sunny and clear day. We were met by Jack, one of the Dungeness National Nature Reserve wardens, who gave us a briefing on what we may see around the area and at the RSPB reserve. Making our way out to the […]
On Sunday 19 September 21 of us met at the Old Lighthouse in Dungeness. The weather was overcast but dry and with only a slight breeze. Before leaving the car park a sparrowhawk and kestrel flew over the lighthouse and a peregrine was spotted perching on a pylon. Making our way to the beach small […]
The first of this month’s outings was to be at Dungeness on Sunday 9th February. Unfortunately storm Ciara had other ideas, heading for us on the same day. Having decided to bring the meeting forward a day we hoped that anyone who wanted to come would see the email – many apologies if […]
There was a cold easterly wind blowing when a dozen of us met at Dungeness lighthouse on Saturday morning, but not to be deterred we wrapped up warm and headed towards the power station. We were hoping to see the black redstarts which seem to have taken up residence in that area but unfortunately the […]
We were greeted with a fine sunny morning (remember those?) at the old Dungeness lighthouse. In fact the weather was too good – we could make out the coastline of France across the Channel and hence so could migrant birds so there weren’t many around the bushes in the immediate vicinity. Hence we made our […]
The day had an ominous start; broken alarm clock, damaged window blinds, temporarily mislaid credit cards, a chipped windscreen – none of that heralded the greatest of days, but hopefully Dungeness would improve things. As we drove past the ARC pits I spotted a Great White Egret by the side of the road and we […]
This week my usual Wednesday Walk was actually on Thursday and as I trawled through the various websites looking for potential sites the only area which appealed was Dungeness. Bravely I suggested it to the rest of the team – knowing that blame would be apportioned if I had made the wrong suggestion. We […]
here is the latest newsletter from the RSPB team at Dungeness: RSPB Dungeness newsletter