A Dungeness record count of Cormorants!

This morning watch from the fishing boats:
08.15-09.45

Brent Goose: 14 up
Common Scoter: 4 up
Red-throated Diver: 222 down
Great-crested Grebe: 200+ around
Fulmar: 2 down   1 up
Gannet: 36 down
Great Skua: 1 around
Mediterranean Gull: 1 around
Kittiwake: 19 down
Guillemot: 40+ around
Razorbill: 3+ around
Auk sp: c200 around

As I had to go to Hythe this morning, I dropped into Stade Street where 2 Purple Sandpipers were on the breakwater.

At Scotney the Black-necked Grebe was still present but no grey geese, 3 Ringed Plovers flew over my first of the year. The drake Goosander was still on Bretts Marina also a Great White Egret there.

The Ring-necked Duck was still on Cook's Pool this afternoon and another Great White Egret.

Most of the afternoon was spent in the shelter of the VC in the company of MH and DW, where another Great White Egret was seen, a 1w Iceland Gull a different individual from yesterday afternoon was in the island Gull roost, 5+ Goldeneye, a Ruff and a Turnstone among the Lapwing also a couple of Marsh Harriers of note. The most notable sighting was a Dungeness record breaking 1,860 Cormorants coming into roost.