Sunday 29 July 2018

Sea watching is tough. Turn your back and you miss the big one. Congratulations to Andy Lawson for keeping at it and reaping his reward in the form of a Great Shearwater, one of the most sought after sea bird by the Dungeness locals.
However my reward was as I stared through my scope, a Thresher Shark which breached vertically, it's long tail whipping at least a metre clear of the waves just a couple of hundred yards off shore 
06.00 - 08.45, 09.30- 11.30, 14.00 - 16.15,
Shoveler: 1E
Common Scoter: 18E    5 on   14W
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Fulmar: 2E   4W
Manx Shearwater 7E   18W
Balearic Shearwater: 12W
Sooty Shearwater: 3W
Shearwater sp: 2W (Balearic/Manx)
Gannet 874W   522E
Sandwich Tern: 39W
Common Tern: 57W
Swift 18W
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Grey Seal: 2
Thresher Shark: 1



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