Keith Ross

I do a full day guided nature walk from #Ramsgate to #Pegwell Bay Nature Reserve all year & from Sept to March a shorter Kingfisher walk & talk around Ramsgate harbour. Dates to suit you. Email keithross1@hotmail.com to book 🐦🦅🦊🦎🌼🐝🌳 #VisitRamsgateUK #VisitThanet #ActiveRamsgate

The female Kestrel put on a show hunting along the western undercliff this afternoon. 🙂

It was lovely to bump into a couple at the harbour who had been on an unsuccessful Kingfisher walk with me last year. Today I was able to show them 2 territorial Kingfishers flying around the port. 🙂

Woodcock just flown through the garden! 😄👍

Great to see a pair of Grey wagtails at the Ramsgate Boating Pool. 🙂

Our annual trip out to see the Fungi in East Blean woods. Highlight was a very smelly Stinkhorn, loads of Fly agaric and for me best of all was seeing three deer running through the woods!!!

A Fox stopped off at the garden bin lid bird bath for a drink. 🙂

The male Kestrel was hunting by the garage pool. 🙂

Female Kestrel hunting along #Ramsgate Westcliff. 🙂

Some footage of this afternoons Red-throated diver. Still showing a bit of a red neck from its breeding plumage. 🙂 #kentbirding

Red-throated diver and a Kingfisher in #Ramsgate harbour this afternoon. 🙂 #kentbirding

We watched a large gathering of Swallows at Sandwich yesterday. 🙂

A tiny Goldcrest visited the garden bin lid bird bath for a quick wash this morning. 🙂

Always nice to spot a Kingfisher. :-)

Some recent visitors to the garden bin lid bird bath. Including the UKs smallest bird the Firecrest. Just that bit smaller than the Wren. :-)

Kingfisher in the dark. :-)

A male Stonechat preening at #Pegwell yesterday. 🙂

A small kettle of Buzzards put on a spectacular display of barrel rolling high above #Pegwell yesterday afternoon. 🙂

Seal rescue on #Ramsgate westcliff yesterday morning. Hopefully it's okay. #BDMLR #sealrescue

I think its been a really good year for Wall Brown butterflies. Other than the Whites they seem to be the most plentiful butterflies on the wing for the past few weeks around #Ramsgate and #Pegwell. 🙂

A Greenshank filmed from the balcony of the Sir Stanley Gray pub at #Pegwell. 🙂

It wasn't just military planes flying past. The Peregrine was being mobbed by the crows and gulls and a Greenshank was on the incoming tide. 🙂 #Pegwell

I was 'bird watching' from the balcony at the Sir Stanley Gray this afternoon when this C-130 flew out to sea and back again a good few times.

One of my favourite locations to film the Kingfisher is the industrial setting of Ramsgate Port. 🎥💙

One of two Kingfisher around the harbour this morning. 🙂

Some footage from yesterday of my Fox encounter at Pegwell. 🙂

Some footage of a female Kestrel on a cliff at Pegwell. 🙂

I'm not sure who was more surprised, the Fox or the Frog! 🦊💦🐸🤣

Some footage of the Great white egret at #Pegwell yesterday with a bonus Red-throated diver and I'm pretty sure that's a Peregrine perched in the distance. :-) #kentbirding

It's not every day you get a 'Lifer'. I spotted ny first ever Long-tailed Blue #Butterfly along the fence line opposite the Port of #Ramsgate entrance! 🦋😀💚👍

Of all the places to find my first Long tailed blue #butterfly 🦋. Across from the entrance to Ramsgate Port!!! 😊💚👍

The juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker visited the garden bin lid bird bath for a wash yesterday. You can see the red cap on the top of the head is starting to fade and revealing that she is a young female as the males have a red patch of feathers on the back of their neck. :-)

Raptors seen yesterday included Peregrine, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk & Buzzard. 🙂

The Red-throated diver was pretty close to #Ramsgate westcliff at high tide yesterday morning. It must have drifted into #Pegwell Bay as I picked it up again at the mouth of the river at the nature reserve later on. 🙂 #Kentbirding

I spotted a Goldcrest in the garden on the way out yesterday morning so it was a nice surprise to see a Firecrest turn up for a wash in the garden bin lid bird bath. 🙂

I wasn't expecting to see a Buzzard perched on what would normally be a Kestrel perch at the old hoverport. 🙂

It was nice to find a pair of Wheatear flitting about the rocks on the old Pegwell hoveport sea wall yesterday morning. 🙂

A Pied flycatcher joined the Robin for a wash in the garden bin lid bird bath yesterday. 🙂

My first Red-throated diver of the Autumn was fishing off #Ramsgate Port rocks and drifting further along westcliff yesterday afternoon. 🙂 #Kentbirding

A female Kingfisher was hiding out in the harbour this afternoon. Also one maybe two Grey wagtails seen briefly. 🙂

A male Blackcap was making itself heard from the bushes by the Viking ship yesterday afternoon. 🙂

The very high tide meant that many small mammals were on the menu for Kestrels, Buzzards and Crows.

A well camouflaged Clouded yellow butterfly. One of three seen yesterday. 🙂

Ratty was enjoying the berries in a bush outside the Pegwell bird hide window as we watched the tide push the waders in. 🙂

Lots a Willow warblers, Chiffchaffs and Long-tailed tits in the Pegwell bushes. 🙂

On the home I spotted the Seal pup again. Only this time it wasn't covered in mud and was pure white. 🙂

A little flavour of todays 'Countryside Walk' onto Minster Marshes led by George Cooper. A great turn out despite the short notice. Well done everyone!. 🙂 #SaveMinsterMarshes #RethinkSeaLink #PegwellBay

I found a Clouded Yellow butterfly along the Ramsgate Port road this afternoon 🙂

A Wheatear getting ready to make the Channel crossing. 🙂

On the way home I bumped into this Wheatear having lunch on the Westcliff path. 😉

When not being mobbed by the gulls the female Kestrel was hunting along Ramsgate westcliff. 🙂