Kent Ornithological Society 
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Ray O’ Reilly, KOS Field Trip organiser writes:-
Wednesday 17th December was our final KOS Field Trip of the year. We all arrived in the early morning on a bright sunny windless Dungeness beach.
Patches of golden sunlight decorated the sea as we watched a few seabirds drifting up and down the Channel. Always fascinating, we spotted Gannets, Guillemots, Red-throated Divers and some distant Common Scoter. Then ‘Hawkeye’ Lys Muirhead spotted a Peregrine on top of a nearby pylon that flew off towards us. From here we went to Cockles Bridge where we had wonderful views of a flock of sixteen Cattle Egrets.
Our next port of call was Walland Marsh where we were using telescopes to view two Whooper and ten Bewick's Swans - regular winter visitors to Romney Marshes, but dwindling in numbers. A singing Corn Bunting sounding like jangling keys was photographed and then - the serendipity that makes birding so fascinating happened again - we found a male Merlin.
Merlin by Yuti Chernojovsky.
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KOS Field Trip - Saturday 7th June 2025
Ray O’Reilly - KOS Field Trip Organiser writes:-
‘We held our June 2025 KOS Field Outing on Saturday the 7th and facing a gloomy weather forecast we chose a trip to Dungeness.
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Ray O’ Reilly - KOS Fieldtrip organiser writes:-
‘Our April 2025 KOS Field Outing was an Inter County affair starting in East Sussex and finishing in Kent.
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Ray O’ Reilly writes:- ‘The March 2025 Kent Ornithological Society Field Outing took place on March 25th.
It was a splendid Spring day and we saw many butterflies - especially Commas - as well as 69 species of birds.
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Ray O’Reilly - KOS Field Trip Organiser writes:-
“We wasted no time in getting our 2025 Kent Ornithological Society Field Trips underway this year with our first outing taking place on Thursday January 2nd.
We had a record five cancellations for this outing mainly due to ill heath but we still managed a group of eight of us for the day.
We started at the RSPB's Cliffe Pools and it was a classic case of what a difference a day makes. New Year’s Day’s high winds and rain had given way to a dry, cold windless morn with beautiful sunny spells in the afternoon. Cetti's Warbler and a bonny male Stonechat were two of the first birds recorded and a couple of Song Thrushes serenaded us as we walked the trail. Ralph Todd found a Sparrowhawk and we admired several Redwings and marvelled at 35 Little Grebes or Dabchicks as they are colloquially called.
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November 19th 2023 - KOS Field Trip to Dungeness
Ray O' Reilly, KOS Field Trip Organiser, writes:- "Yesterday, 19th November 2023, we carried out our monthly KOS Field Outing once again to Dungeness and it proved to be a fruitful venue.