Brent Goose: 1w
Common Scoter: 4E
Red-throated Diver: 23E 5W
Great-crested Grebe: 14 on sea
Fulmar: 4W
Gannet: 4E
Kittiwake: 2W
Guillemot: 1E
Auk sp: 4E
At The Patch among the 100s of Black-headed Gulls a striking leucistic individual was the only bird of note there.
Leucistic Black-headed Gull
In the Gull roost on The Point a 1w Caspian Gull picked out by DW, as I got on to it and lifted the camera all the Gulls flushed and the Caspian flew off.
Another look at the sea this afternoon produced nothing in the very strong westerly winds.
The ARC from the causeway just a single red head Smew of note.
Burrowes Pit and Dengemarsh were very rough, apart from a couple of Marsh Harriers and Little Egrets, Shoveler, Gadwall and 5 Goldeneye little was seen here.
Scotney was more like an ocean with waves breaking over the islands and the wind howling across the turf, not surprisingly there was very little to be seen there.
The Cattle Egrets could be seen in the ditch by Brickwall Farm sheltering from the wind.
Your white Black-headed Gull is probably/possibly a bird we see in Pegwell Bay (annually) for the past six - eight or so years? It never lingers, often showing up for one to two tides before disappearing for another six months. We last saw it on both the 13th and 14th of February of this year ... if it follows the usual pattern it'll show again in November/December?
ReplyDeleteCarry on plodding ... Phil (Ramsgate)