Kent Ornithological Society. Recording and monitoring bird life in Kent
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KOS Weekly Highlights: an excellent and very busy week in Kent, with Pied Wheatear, Pallid Harrier, Hume’s Warbler, Cory’s Shearwater, confiding Lapland Buntings and much more! See full report on kentos.org.uk. #kentbirding
KOS Weekly Highlights: the week offered some exciting sea-watching with Dungeness having a particularly good day on the 12th. Further highlights included a Shorelark and a Glossy Ibis. See kentos.org.uk for all details. #kentbirding
KOS Weekly Highlights: an interesting Black Kite, a colour-ringed Hoopoe, owls in the hand and an increase in Chaffinches. See kentos.org.uk for all details. #kentbirding
KOS Weekly Highlights: a Pallid Harrier, a dozen Yellow-browed Warblers, the first Ring Ouzels of the autumn and 148 Balearic Shearwater past Dungeness made for a decent week. Read all details and an update on the Kent year list on kentos.org.uk #kentbirding
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Here is the list of activities that will be taking place on The Big Kent Bird Migration Day this Sunday! So why not come down and experience some autumn migration with us this weekend?
KOS Weekly Highlights: the first Yellow-browed Warblers of the autumn, more Phalarope, a Glossy Ibis and a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers. Read all details on kentos.org.uk where you can also find information on the Big Kent Bird Migration Day this Sunday. #kentbirding
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Come join us for the Big Kent Bird Migration Day at Dungeness Bird Observatory in exactly a week today! There will be lots going on, with a guided walk, visible migration watches, seawatching and hopefully bird ringing if the weather allows. We hope to see you there!
KOS Weekly Highlights: an excellent week, particularly at Dungeness, with a Brown Booby, Western Bonelli’s Warbler, Red-necked Phalarope and more. Read all details on kentos.org.uk. #kentbirding
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The star bird of the day was a Western Bonelli's Warbler that was seen on and off on the edge of the Long Pits and Trapping Area. The land was busy with 46 Willow Warbler, 105 Chiffchaff, a Sedge, a Reed, 40 Blackcap, two Garden, 12 Lesser Whitethroat, 14 Whitethroat...
ALT Western Bonelli's Warbler taken by Graham Parry.
KOS Weekly Highlights: an excellent week in Kent headlined by a photographed Brown Booby. But there was lots more like Red-necked Phalarope, Glossy Ibis, Golden Oriole and Night-heron, plus other good sea-watching records. See kentos.org.uk for details. #kentbirding
To celebrate bird migration to and from the county, the KOS & partners are holding a day of birdwatching, ringing & recording on 27th of Sept. Please join us at one of 3 participating sites. See kentos.org.uk/index.php/even… for details & instructions of how to sign up where relevant.
KOS Weekly Highlights: another week of good autumn migration with a Corncrake, Storm-petrel, Red-backed Shrike and Wryneck, while several scarcities lingered. Read all details plus an update on the Kent year list on kentos.org.uk #kentbirding
KOS Weekly Highlights: another week with plenty of migrants, including Hoopoe and two Wrynecks, while sea-watching added to the mix with a Sabine’s Gull, two Puffins and a Long-tailed Skua. See all details on kentos.org.uk. #kentbirding #birdguides
KOS Weekly Highlights: plenty of scarce birds to enjoy in Kent this week with two White-winged Terns, a Stone-curlew, Purple Heron and a Red-backed Shrike. Seawatching was better with all four skuas and the first Balearic Shearwater. See kentos.org.uk. #kentbirding
KOS Weekly Highlights: a good week in Kent in warm conditions with a Montagu’s Harrier, Roseate Tern, Wryneck and more. See all details on kentos.org.uk #kentbirding #birdguides
This must be the first time song-flighting Curlew has ever been videoed in Kent, where this species has never bred. Congratulations to all concerned for getting to this stage. If safe, successful breeding can be established here it will hugely help the survival of this species.
Thank you @BBCBreakfast for featuring Elmley's part in the Head Start project to restore breeding Curlews to southern England.
This year for the 1st time in over 300yrs the song of courting Curlews was heard over the marsh as a young pair made an attempt to nest on the reserve
KOS Weekly Highlights: plenty good birds seen this week with a Cory’s Shearwater, Black Kite, Red-rumped Swallow and Pectoral Sandpiper. Plus a tick up in migration and an update on the Kent year list. See kentos.org.uk for details. #kentbirding #birdguides
KOS Weekly Highlights: Another intriguing raptor sighting this week, the returning (?) White-rumped Sandpiper at Oare, a record Med Gull count and news on the origins of last week’s Gull-billed Tern. Read it all on kentos.org.uk #kentbirding #birdguides
