Yesterday a White-billed Diver was found of North Kent at Margate and I paid little attention to the news, that is until I learnt it was a summer plumaged adult and by which time it was a little to late to go down and see it.
If there bird was there today I would go and see it.
It was indeed there and I set off with Sheryl to hopefully see my first Banana Billed Diver in 11 years.
Traffic was reasonable on the way down and the bird was eventually seen off of the esplanade at Margate.
For the most part it was way to far off for the camera as the tide was out but the views through the scope were excellent. We spent at least an hour and half watching the bird but once it started to drift out away from the shore we went off to look for the nearby Pallid Swift, which we did not see.
The images here of the diver are about as good as I could get and are very heavy crops, thus the poorer end result than I would like, and I suspect the very good photos taken yesterday here by others was when the tide was more favourable and the bird was closer in to the beach.
Still its a White-Billed, or Yellow-billed, depending on your preferences, Diver and it was a stunner.
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