With limited time available today, we decided to visit Cliffe Pools and try to locate the two species of Grebes we were missing this year. Alpha Pool had been host to both Red-necked and Black-necked Grebes in recent days so we were hopeful of locating them this morning. It's a bit of a challenge to reach Alpha Pool and with the amount of rain, we have had recently the footpaths were very muddy. Upon reaching the pool we began scanning through the masses of Little Grebes (they seemed to be everywhere we scanned on the pool) and eventually located a single Black-necked Grebe at the Southern end. With no sign of the Red-necked Grebe, we walked further north towards Cliffe Fort and found the Red-necked Grebe close to the bank in front of the disused jetty of the former Blue Circle Sailing Club.
We returned to the car park and took the footpath towards Flamingo Pool passing Cliffe Creek on the way.
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| Cliffe Creek |
No new additions to the year list were added from the creek or Flamingo Pool, but there were large flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plover to be seen along with double figures of Skylark several Redshank and a single Avocet.
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