Monday 11 April 2016

An excellent days Sea Watching at Dungeness!

Arctic Skua

0-5.50-12.00 & 13.30-18.00
Brent Goose: 339 9E
Shelduck: 8E
Gadwall: 14E
Pintail: 6E
Shoveler: 23E
Teal: 8E
Common Scoter: 2,018E     17W
Red-breasted Merganser: 65E
Red throated Diver: 65E
Black-throated Diver: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: present n/c
Fulmar: 14E
Manx Shearwater: 16E
Gannet: 517E
Cormorant: present n/c
Oystercatcher: 15E
Ringed Plover: 1 around
Grey Plover: 6E
Knot: 8E
Whimbrel: 11E
Bar-tailed  Godwit: 7E
Sanderling: 3E
Dunlin 6 up
Marsh Harrier: 1 in
Peregrine: 1 around
Great skua: 1E
Arctic Skua: 26E     (24 DP  2 LP)
Mediterranean Gull: 7E   1W
Little Gull: 77E
Kittiwake: 51E
Iceland Gull: 1 (1w flew west early morning then reappeared at The patch briefly early afternoon)
Little Tern: 1E
Sandwich Tern: 937E
Common Tern: 311E
Arctic Tern: 2E
Guillemot: 1 on sea
Razorbill: 3E
Auk sp: 18E   10W
Swallow : 1 in
Yellow Wagtail: 1 in
Linnet:21 coasting
A brief early afternoon look at the New Diggings saw the 2 Slavonian grebes and a Black-necked Grebe. The only news from the reserve was that the Tundra Bean Goose is still present and that there are plenty of Sedge Warblers now in. The Pied Flycatcher and Redstarts were still at the north end of the Long Pits today.


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