Red-throated Diver at the fishing boats early morning

08.00-09.00 from the fishing boats:

                                    Up Channel           Down Channel
Red-throated Diver:      1                  1 on           1
Great-crested Grebe:     7 around
Gannet:                                                              17
Cormorant:                287 around
Turnstone:                     2 on beach
Mediterranean Gull:      9 around
Kittiwake:                  136 around
Guillemot:                      3                  4 on          1
Razorbill:                                           1 on          1
Auk sp:                           4                                 13      
Starling:                      110 in
Harbour Porpoise:          2+
Yet another plod around the sea containers and fishing boats up to the Lifeboat Station and back  found just 1 Skylark and 2 Wrens.

Red-throated Diver at the fishing boats early morning

At Boulderwall the Ring-necked Duck and Cattle Egret were showing, also a Great White and |Little Egret, Bittern, Grey Heron, Common Buzzard and 2+ Marsh Harriers there.

 Ring-necked Duck at Boulderwall. If it stays hopefully I will get better images.

 Snow Buntings at Littlestone Esplanade

A visit to Littlestone saw the 5 Snow Buntings, a Rock Pipit, several Meadow Pipits and Skylarks, also a couple of Stonechats. On the shore Sanderling, Dunlin, Grey Plover, Turnstone's and Oystercatchers.

This afternoon I visited West Hythe with MH to see the Whooper Swan. It is in the field immediately north of the railway line in Botolph's Bridge Road.