Frank Cackett

Kent fruit tree management, Cliffe based, distracted occasionally by rare birds and such like!

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

Bit gutted to have driven past the Seasalter Desert Wheatear in my haste to get home, and not looking at my WhatsApp messages on Saturday, so here’s another that was in exactly the same place on 29th October 2019!

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@Eastkentbirder Cheers mate, light was superb and so warm, felt like being in Spain again!😎👍

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

Brilliant morning in NE Kent, 2 Pallid Swifts showed brilliantly at Botany Bay, with a bonus Vagrant Emperor in the carpark which made me choke on my take away coffee!, then great views of the Dusky warbler at Westbrook, but too elusive for a photo for me!

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@MarcHeathym007 Unfortunately not,didn’t hang around long enough, saw enough for positive id tho, last seen in local gardens

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@NeilBurt5 @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides @KentishPlover A good day Neil!👍

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

Interesting day at work at Rye St Cliffe Merlin, Crossbill, Redpoll and Redwings over, and mid afternoon at least 4 high flying Noctule bats put on a performance till dusk

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@Eastkentbirder @alex_wx_ 😳

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2 Slavonian grebes and a Red throated diver on the Swale from Milton creek Kemsley this morning, while attempting to relocate the recent Shorelark ( which I didn’t!)🙄

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

Sea watch from Shellness isle of Sheppy this afternoon wasn’t classic, but did have my first Little Auk for a few years, a couple of Arctic skuas, RBMerg, 4 Arctic and 15 Sandwich terns, 3 large Auks, better than working in the rain tbf!😂

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

2nd visit to Margate cemetery in wet and windy conditions, very brief views of the RFBluetail, which was extremely elusive. Also around 3 YBWblrs, Firecrests, single Brambling. No sign of the Pallas’s though

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@MaliHalls Thanks Mali👍

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An excellent day in east Kent, Pallas’s and several YBWblrs,Firecrests, Black redstart, Jack snipe,loads of thrushes, and had the GGShrike to myself on Worth marshes this evening,which was amazingly tame!

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@weight_bernard Cheers Bernie, good to see you as well👍

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@_jdbirder Cheers mate, great to see you, ( and Craig) thanks for the info👍

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

@Baldbirder1 😂

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@Baldbirder1 It actually flew in and landed in front of me just feet away, seemed not bothered by my presence!😳

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

Birds were moving west over Great Chattenden wood yday, 28 Crossbills, over 200 Redwing, 2 Fieldfares,Brambling, Siskins and Chaffinch streaming through nearly all day. Later just 1 Brambling at Northward hill rspb

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

End of another October stay at Driftwood Kilnsea,a bit quiet this time, but still some good birds etc, even if the weather felt more like Spain than the east coast of Yorkshire!!😎

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

More going on today at Spurn, Hawfinch, Little Bunting,Glossy ibis best, lots of other bits

[Frank Cackett @FCackett]

A bit quiet at Spurn last few days, but always something to look at!