21,03/2025

After spending the last 10 days in Egypt it was good to get back to Dungeness and some proper sea watching. Hopefully I will get round to posting a few bits from my Egyptian holiday.

A party of Garganey passing this afternoon distantly, they looked much better in the scope.

06.55-15.15  ENE -SE 5     11º  With JS, RW, DW ,JY, SM

Brent Goose: 226E

Greylag Goose: 12E
Shelduck: 1E

Garganey 27E

Shoveler: 12E

Wigeon: 1E

Teal: 6E

Dabbling Duck sp: 15E
Eider: 1E
Common Scoter: 407E

Red-breasted Merganser: 6E
Great-crested Grebe: 6E

Oystercatcher: 15E

Avocet: 3E

Ringed Plover: 1E

Dunlin: 18E

Sandwich Tern: 237E

Little Gull: 58E
Kittiwake: 259E  
Black-headed Gull: 68E
Mediterranean Gull: 5E  
Common Gull:  Present n/c
Herring Gull: Present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 26E
Razorbill: 120E

Guillemot: 18E
Auk sp: 17W 
Red-throated Diver: 3W     230E
Fulmar: 2E
Gannet: 1,049E
Cormorant: present n/c 

Kestrel: 2E

Merlin: 1E

Carrion Crow: 5E

Reed Bunting: 1 Behind the hide.
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Grey Seal: 1

A drake Eider passing the Bouy

 Ther was an arrival of Black Redstarts on the peninsular with c20 birds being found, several Wheatears also arrived with a few Chiffchaffs. A Hawfinch per JS over the Long Pits was an exellent record, also a few Chaffinches on the move but little else of note.