As forecast, there was a thick
fog covering East Kent this morning so, instead of spending fruitless hours on
the Ramp looking into murk I drove to Stodmarsh and planted myself in the
Reedbed hide at 7.00am. As soon as I sat down a Kingfisher flew in, landed on a
fishing post and then promptly left. Then I noticed the Glossy Ibis on the
opposite bank alongside a Little Egret and a Grey Heron, this probably being
the bird I first saw on Tuesday. It took until well after 9.00am for the fog to
lift and even then it was mostly cloudy with the very occasional glimmer of
sunlight and the Glossy Ibis always new this a when the light was murky it’d be
fairly close and as soon as it walked away the sun shone!!! The little bugger
must have known. I stayed in the hide until 3.00pm and was joined by Steve
Ashton mid-morning with others filling the hide throughout the morning and
afternoon. Not much birding done today but there were 197 Teal on the pool
early on plus we also noted 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Water rail, 3 Great-crested Grebes,
50 Greylag Geese, 1 Green Sandpiper and 1 Greenshank.
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| Glossy Ibis and Little Egret in the fog this morning |
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| Little Egret on the Kingfisher fishing Post |
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| |Reflections of a Little Egret on the Kingfisher fishing Post |
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| Great-crested Grebe offering itself to the camera |
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| Great-crested Grebe offering itself to the camera |
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| Glossy Ibis when a little bit of Sun showed |
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| Glossy Ibis still in gloom |
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| Angel Wings |
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| High ISO, just think if it had been Sunny??? |
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| High ISO, just think if it had been Sunny??? |
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| Little Egret below the hide window |
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| Short Phonescoped video |
