Curlew Sandpipers
Curlew Sandpipers
3 Excellent visits to the reserve found a total of 48 Curlew Sandpipers, 20 Knot, 31 Black-tailed Godwits, 30+ Dunlin, 20+ Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 3 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, 4 Ruff, a Little Stint, 200+ Lapwing, 10+ Oystercatchers, 5 Great white Egrets, 6 Garganey, 2 Black Terns, 100s of Sand Martins and all the usual wildfowl.
Colour ringed Curlew Sandpiper
Little Stint from Firth
Great White Egret from Hanson
3 of 5 Garganey from Hanson
09.30-12.00 from the fishing boats:
Common Scoter: 8 upGreat-crested Grebe: 5 around
Fulmar: 2 down
Gannet: c120 down
Cormorant: 12 around
Turnstone: 27 down
Arctic Skua: 4+ around
Kittiwake: 36 down
Little Tern: 11 down
Sandwich Tern: c400 down
Common Tern: c220 down
Black Tern: 13 down
Grey Seal: 1
Swallow: 2 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5+
Hummingbird Hawkmoth: 2 in
Turnstones past the fishing boats
14.15-16.15 from the fishing boats with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 12 downFulmar: 2 up
Gannet 64 up
Arctic Skua: 3 around
Kittiwake: 18 down
Little Tern: 6 down
Sandwich Tern: 218 down
Common Tern: 118 down
Black Tern: 2 down
Swift 3 out
Arctic Skua from the fishing boats
Another crap day at Dungeness then Martin...
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you know what I have to put up with day after day Steve!
DeleteSo glad I missed this one Martin, would have been stressed as to which way to point the camera.
ReplyDeleteOne of the better days Mike, though the light was awful most of the day.
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