Turtle dove

Heard one singing this morning - 1st for a couple of years for me - certainly a worrying decline in the uk. May have a recording of it....Nice morning stroll.

juv kes(s).. at least 3 in the area.

Brading/st helens

4 x marsh harrier

Lesser whitethroat - two to three calling

Curlew

jupiter

Cuckoo at Brading this evening

And in the garden recently

Cattle egret Brading NR

Warden found it. Fairly distant tho

2016

2014 

- almost two years to the day I had this one

Edit: went back this evening - still present and closer 

Garden painted lady

WHISKERED TERN! Brading NR

Had a Tern sp. this morning at Brading Marsh (pools SW of Carpenters Farm/New Bridge). Not being overly confident, from afar I thought it was just a common tern milling about - the odd one does turn up in the area. However, this evening whilst reviewing my pics (I'd just been casually testing out a new camera) something wasn't right?! I started thinking WHISKERED. I quickly sent images to my brother and put some on Facebook to check I wasn't going mad, and it was quickly confirmed as one. Nice. And only about the second Island record for this species.

To quote another birder 'look at those cheeks!'

Upper

A far superior shot by local photographer John Caws

Spoonbill

Brading NR early AM

It was found a few days ago - still present

Red kite

Over Binstead: a chance sighting from the car  - typically didn't have my other camera or bins at hand - but hastily managed a phone video at least.

Diamond-back influx