04/11/2025

A stunning Sunrise at the fishing boats this morning

1,000s of birds streamed westwards past the fishing boats in first couple of hours of daylight, by 09.00 there was barely a trickle. A full list of the sea watch can be seen at the following link SEAWATCH TOTALS

Razorbills streaming past the boats early morning

Guillemots streaming past the boats early morning

This Black-necked Grebe was very close to the cycle track along the front of Scotney late morning, apart from 5 Barnacle Geese, 4 Pintail and the usual wildfowl the rest of the complex was very lacking in birds.

Many thanks to Colin for the call telling me that 20+ Crossbills had been seen in The pines at the ARC this morning. I made my way there in hope rather than expectation, so I was very pleasantly surprised to hear and see them them as I approached The Pines. 

Perched Crossbills are rare occurrence on the Dungeness peninsula, these gorgeous birds were in the Pines by the Water Tower at the ARC. As usual I took far to many images. 

Crossbills coming to a puddle to drink