A wet and windy morning at Dungeness sea watching in comfort from the car 08.00-12.00:
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Sooty Shearwater: 2WGannet: c200+ Predominately W
Common Scoter: 5W 31E 1 on sea
Grey Heron: 1 out
Arctic Skua: mimimum 4 off shore 3DP + 1LP
Great Skua: 1W
Little Gull: 1 off shore
Mediterranean Gull: 1ad off shore
Kittiwake: 1 juv off shore
Sandwich Tern: c40 off shore
Common Tern: c25 off shore
Arctic Tern: 2+ off shore
Swallows: 742 out
Harbour Porpoise: 3+ off shore
From a wind and rain swept Hanson Hide the ARC was not at its best with little of real note. 2 Sparrowhawks were trying and failing to catch any of the 100s of hirundines feeding over the lake, 2 Marsh Harriers flew over flushing most the duck, there were no waders to flush. 2 noisy Water Rails close to the hide refused to show them selves in the newly cut area of reeds neither did a Cetti's Warbler or the several Chiffchaffs calling in the bushes.
At Scotney the feral Barnacle Geese flock still present as was 8 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff and c150 Golden Plover.
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