Wednesday 29 December 2021

29/12/2021

Wind S 4-6 constant drizzle with periods of heavier rain.
08.00-10.30 from the sea watch hide joined by RW

Eider: 4W
Red-throated Diver: 543W      10E        2 on
Great-crested Grebe: 2W  2E    1 on
Fulmar: 5W    3E
Gannet: 102W     33E
Cormorant: c2,000W into Rye bay
Turnstone: 1W
Kittiwake: 166W    
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Common Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Guillemot: 307W   42E
Razorbill: 117W      15E
Auk sp: 980W    107E
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 1
The weather made birding difficult today, though I did force myself to go and see the plastic Pochard on Lade North Pit, getting a well deserved soaking for my trouble. On Burrowes this afternoon a single 1w Caspian Gull that flew off in the time it took me get my camera from the car, also a very distant juvenile Little Gull spotted by Richard. There were still 6 Cattle Egrets with the Little Egrets in the Horse Paddocks.
Red-crested Pochard on Lade North Pit today, the first record on the peninsular this year
J11CC Norwegian ringed Great Black-backed Gull seen regularly this winter around Dungeness
A distant juvenile Little Gull feeding on Burrowes this afternoon



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