Record Breaking Day at Dungeness!

As a stiff South Easterly was blowing this morning the sea watch hide was full by 06.30, all watchers were well rewarded as the birds streamed past.

Eider passing the hide this morning

Some of the 1,300+ Gannets passed Dungeness today

06.00-16.30 with AJG,OL, JTM, DW, JC et al
Brent Goose: 19E
Greylag Goose: 2W
Teal: 22E
Shoveler:28E
Common Scoter : 2,394E
Velvet Scoter: 8E
Eider: 14E
Red-breasted Merganser: 13E
Red-throated Diver: 108E.  6W
Black-throated Diver: 1E. 
Great-crested Grebe: 36 on
Fulmar: 36E       12W
Manx Shearwater: 6E    5W
Gannet: 1,384E
Cormorant: present n/c
Oystercatcher: 4E
Avocet: 11E
Dunlin: 2E
Knot: 5E
Sanderling: 1E
Curlew: 9E
Whimbrel: 1E (first of the year)
Great Skua: 12E
Arctic Skua: 19E
Little Gull: 36E
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Kittiwake: 109E
Sandwich Tern: 2,296E (Apparently a spring record total per DW, probably more this evening, old record 1,747)
Common Tern: 418E
Little Tern: 1E (first of the year)
Guillemot: 10E   3W
Auk sp: 22E    31W

 1 of the distant Manx Shearwaters past today

 9 of the 11 Avocets past today

 Late afternoon on the reserve a lovely Red-necked Grebe was showing distantly on Burrowes, also a summer plumage Little Gull dropped in. The Common Crane was at Dengemarsh and the 3 Cattle egrets were in there favoured horse paddock.