07/03/2025

Pintails and Shovellers flying East over the sea watch hide

A Dungeness record breaking day count of Pintail migrating past The Point and quite possibly a national record day migration count. A day that will stay with us forever.😁

06.30-17.30 SSE 3-5          
Brent Goose: 634E
Shoveller: 474E

Gadwall: 1E

Pintail: 3,705E  (Many of these birds were very high over the hide and some over the Power Station)

Wigeon: 4E

Teal: 97E

Common Scoter: 317E

Red-breasted Merganser: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 14 Present

Oystercatcher:

Grey Plover: 7E

Golden Plover: 6E

Curlew: 27E

Bar-tailed Godwit: 3E

Turnstone: 1W

Sandwich Tern: 12

Little Gull: 5E
Kittiwake: 134E  
Black-headed Gull: 25E
Mediterranean Gull: 58E
Common Gull: 149E
Herring Gull: Present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: 51E

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 10E
Razorbill: 22E
Auk sp: 163E
Red-throated Diver: 312E     8W
Fulmar: 4E.   1W
Gannet: 584E     16W

Cormorant: present n/c 

Peregrine: 1 present

Skylark: 5 in off
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2

Very High Pintails and Shoveler with some stratospheric birds top centre

Very High Pintails and Shoveler

Lovely to watch the flocks of Gannets coming through today

Brent Geese along the shoreline with an Oystercatcher 

Yesterdays 2nd calendar year Caspian Gull in front the hide