A wet and dull walk along the Strood seawall on Friday 6th was brightened up by the sight of a
kingfisher which had just caught a little tiddler of a fish. The
kingfisher whacked the fish on the reedmace head several times before swallowing it. It then flew off along the dyke where a few minutes later, it was seen again flying with a second
kingfisher, one chasing the other accompanied with lots of loud whistling.
The tide was going out with lots of waders and small groups of
brent geese feeding along the Strood Channel. At least 300
brent geese were seen along with 50+
wigeon and 12+
little grebes.
The biggest flock of birds was by the Strood causeway where 2000
golden plover were standing on the mud. A couple of times the flock rose into the air before landing back down again, a passing
sparrowhawk being one of the reasons. Fifty
knot seen was the only other wader of note along the channel.
A
common buzzard was seen flying low over the fields on Feldy.
Small birds seen included
rock pipit, 4
corn buntings, 25
linnets, 2
reed buntings, 15
meadow pipits, 5
skylarks and ten
goldfinches. A flock of 100
linnets were on the Ray Island saltmarsh.
Two
great spotted woodpeckers flew together over some gardens near Firs Chase.
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