Jack(5) and I (older) called in at Dungeness on Sunday. We played hide and seek with a white-tailed plover amongst the purple loosestrife. Eventually it stood still long enough for Jack to see it through the telescope – ‘it’s all browny with white and yellow’ – just about summed it up. Then we waited to see if we could see the purple herons. Jack isn’t too keen on waiting, neither am, I so we missed them. Luckily others are much more patient and we now have the news that there are at least two young birds.
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Brilliant! The news, published on-line elsewhere, that the purple herons had failed was clearly much exaggerated.