21st May 2019 - RSPB Dungeness and Pulborough Brooks

Sadly no sign of the whiskered tern or roseate tern early morning at Dungeness. However, some compensation in the form of a very smart singing male serin at Littlestone-on-Sea.

Later in the day I met up with Dad and we visited Pulborough Brooks. The pair of black-winged stilts was still present on the north brooks giving reasonable views from the Hanger viewpoint. Also an unseasonal pink-footed goose on the north brooks, 8 Egyptian geese, a hobby (at Westmead) and cuckoo (h). Although the stilts were seen mating (by ARK), they did not stick around, turning up at Wells in Norfolk the following day.

Black-winged Stilt, Pulborough Brooks, West Sussex