12-13/11/2025

 Sea watching has been relatively slow over the last couple of days, 1,000+ Auks each day though by 08.30 passage has all but stopped,  full details can be found at this link SEA WATCH 

Shags are still a scarce bird at Dungeness

Velvet Scoter

Black-necked Grebe east ent on Scotney main pit

Cycling around Scotney allows me to cover most of the complex fairly easily, though the tracks around the back across the fields are now getting a little sticky, the bird numbers are mainly made up of Lapwing, Golden Plover, Starlings, feral Geese, Linnets with much smaller numbers of Skylarks, I am ever hopeful I will find something different among them especially now cooler weather is coming, in particular wild Geese and Swans, Hen Harrier, Short-eared Owl and perhaps a scarcer Bunting.

A lone Brent Goose on the Scotney sward

One of at least 3 Black Redstarts at Jurys Gap

Kingfishers and Bitterns seem relatively easy to see at the ARC at the moment in the afternoons

Great White Egrets have been giving exceptional views in front of the Axell viewpoint late afternoon