Another of the visits that Mr C and I made whilst away was to the RSPB reserve at Dungeness. This shingle filled reserve almost looks lunar as you approach in the car, but I'm pleased to say that it gave us one of the best days of birdwatching that we've ever had. Mr C's been keeping some good records of what we saw, especially photographic ones, and if you pop over to UK Nature Blog he's included a complete list as well as a couple of posts on specific sightings of the meadow pipet, Great crested grebe and the rarer Slavonian grebe.
A quick stop-off at the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve the following morning added further to our sightings. A pretty good couple of days for seeing nature and it certainly made me appreciate just how many different things are out there to be spotted if you look carefully!
Enjoyed reading your post about your visit to our reserve at Dungeness (it’s one of my favourites, I’ve been going there since the 1970s).
We are very worried about proposals to develop nearby Lydd airport from it’s current 3000 passengers a year to over half a million. The impact on such a fragile and unique environment is predicted to be very serious.
Dungeness has featured quite a lot in the RSPB’s Saving Special Places blog, here’s a post prompted by a recent visit with my five year old son, Jack: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/specialplaces/archive/2010/03/09/lydd-in-perspective.aspx (we missed the Slavonian grebe!)