Back to birds today with a trip to Dungeness. There won’t be many days’ birding in the UK when a Hoopoe doesn’t get into the top three birds, but it was a rubbish distant view, whereas the Kentish Plover (still too distant for a good photo), Bittern and Great Crested Grebes, were excellent.
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The Bittern’s Green Cross Code: look right…
… look left…
…and cross
A Reed Warbler played peekaboo.
All fluffed out: this Great Crested Grebe must want to impress someone.
