Another Brilliant Day at Dungeness!

07.00-09.00 with AJG and DW:

Brent Goose: 12 W

Common Scoter: 4 E

Gannet: 344 W

Purple Sandpiper: 1 on beach

Great Skua: 1 W

Pomarine Skua: 3 W

Arctic Skua: 1 W

Sandwich Tern: 33 W

Common Tern: 1 W

Swallow: 17 W

Rock Pipit: 1 over

Goldfinch: 9 W

 Wheatear: 1 of 6 among the fishing boats

A walk from the fishing boats to the Lifeboat and back produced another 80 Brent Geese west, 17 Turnstone, a Little Egret on the beach, 6 Wheatears, 15 Swallows and 5 House Martins of note.
Around the lighthouse another 2 Wheatears and 6 Swallows, 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Black Redstarts, and 4 Stonechats.

 Little Egret on the beach

Cattle Egret

Driving to the ARC I spotted the Cattle Egret that has not been seen for a few days perched on a fence at Boulderwall. A walk up to the Water Tower produced 17 Ring Ouzels, 5 Chiffchaffs, 2 Great White Egrets and 2 Cetti's Warblers of note.

 Part of a flock of c70 Ring Ouzels

 At the Obsevatory Ring Ouzels could be seen wherever you cared to look, with a day total probably in excess of 500. 2 found there way into the Heligoland trap and were duly processed, on the down side a local cat managed to catch a Ring Ouzel with predictable results.

 Just after the Ring Ouzels had been processed I went back to the Heligoland Trap to oil the hinges on the flaps, as I walked into the trap I spotted a superb Yellow-browed Warbler, DW quickly arrived and duly caught and processed it.  

 Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

16.15-17.00 at the fishing boats with AJG:

Brent Goose: 60 W
Gannet: 297 W
Great Skua: 3 W
Pomarine Skua 1 W
Arctic Skua: 1 W
Sandwich tern: 9 W
Harbour Porpoise: 5+