A visit today to the RSPB's reserve at Dungeness on the South coast. This is a massive peninsula that's mostly shingle (medium sized pebbles) with watery pits and ditches. Photos (lots of photos) will be forthcoming but for now a list of the large quantity of different birds that we identified in just a few hours. Highlighted in red are those that were new to us.

• Mute swan
• Greylag goose
• Canada goose
• Shelduck
• Wigeon
• Teal
• Mallard
• Shoveler
• Pochard
• Tufted duck
• Goldeneye
• Great crested grebe
• Little grebe
• Cormorant
• Grey heron
• Little egret
• Red-legged partridge
• Pheasant
• Marsh harrier
• Moorhen
• Coot
• Lapwing
• Black-headed gull
• Great black-backed gull
• Herring gull
• Wood pigeon
• Pied wagtail
• Blackbird
• Blue tit
• Great tit
• Carrion crow
• House sparrow
• Chaffinch
• Linnet
• Reed bunting
• Ruddy duck