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Chandlers Ford “Falcons” |
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Date: 15/05/2005 (84 species recorded) |
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Check List for Dungeness, Kent |
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BIRD LIST Avocet Blackbird Reed Bunting Buzzard Chaffinch Coot Cormorant Carrion Crow Cuckoo Collared Dove Ruddy Duck Tufted Duck Dunlin Dunnock Little Egret Gadwell Gannet Goldfinch Canada Goose Greylag Goose Great Crested Grebe Little Grebe Greenfinch Greenshank Black Headed Gull Common Gull Great Black Backed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Blackbacked Gull Yellow Legged Gull Grey Heron Jackdaw Jay Kestrel Kittwake Lapwing Linnet Magpie Mallard House Martin Moorhen Oystercatcher Red Legged Partridge Pheasant Wood Pigeon Meadow Pipit Grey Plover Ringed Plover Pochard Redshank Robin Rook Sanderling Common Sandpiper Shelduck Shoveler Arctic Skua Great Skua Skylark House Sparrow Starling Little Stint Swallow Mute Swan Swift Black Tern Common Tern Gull Billed Tern Little Tern Sandwich Tern Song Thrush Blue Tit Coal Tit Great Tit Pied Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Cettis Warbler Reed Warbler Sedge Warbler Wheatear Whimbrel Whitethroat Wigeon Wren |
REPORT BY AMY PIEDA(Wildlife Explorer member)We saw two Cuckoos on our trip to Dungeness; firstly we saw one in a bush on the other side of the river. AT first I could not see it until Derek let me have a look through his telescope. Then one flew in front of us while we were walking after lunch. I liked the cuckoo mostly because of the way it purrs its own name; also because of its stripped belly. I would happily see them again. |
REPORT BY STEPHEN PIEDA(Wildlife Explorer member)We first saw the Gull-Billed tern flying over a small lake on the way to Dungeness. It was very windy and the bird was difficult to see. The Gull-Billed. Tern is called that because it is a tern with a beak like a gull. Its wings are also slightly more gull-like than any of the other terns. It is extremely rare and I am very happy that I saw one. |