Thursday 11 May 2017

Back to Sea Watching!

After a day out in Holland yesterday it was back to the sea watching today, not a bad day unfortunately I arrived to late to see the Cattle Egret. Also a great pity the Long-tailed Skua never made it to Dungeness but probably not that surprising.
06.15-17.15 from the sea watch hide with AJG,LG,SM,DW,MH, MF et al.
Brent Goose: 1 up/down seven times!
Common Scoter: 927 up
Long-tailed Duck: 1 up
Red-throated diver: 1 up
Black-throated Diver: 10 up
Great-crested Grebe: 9 around
Fulmar: 3 around
Gannet: 83 up
Cormorant: present n/c
Cattle Egret 1 up( per Steve Mansfield before 06.15)
Little Egret 1 up
Oystercatcher: 10 up  8 down
Grey Plover: 3 up
Sanderling: 47 up
Dunlin: 20 up
Bar-tailed Godwit: 4 up
Whimbrel:  23 up
Pomarine Skua: 13 up,1 @ 0702; 4 @ 0737, 1 @ 0852, 6 @ 0950, 1 @ 11.17
Arctic Skua: 6 up
Little Gull: 1 up ( 1st summer)
Kittiwake: 35 up
Little Tern: 6 up
Sandwich Tern: 52 up
Arctic Tern: 3 up
Common Tern: 531 up
Black Tern: 9 up
Guillemot: 8 up
Auk: 19 up
Swallow: 22 in











2 comments:

  1. After you left we had one Pom Skua at 17.50hrs, and then I had three Great Northern Divers fly east at 18.30hrs and another Arctic at 18.50hrs. All the best, Neil (bloke sitting to your right this afternoon)

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