Terns steal the show

Harbour Porpoise. They never seem show their heads 

 Apart from a 40 minute period early afternoon most of my day 06.50- 17.20 was spent sitting on the Dungeness beach enjoying the spectacle of 1000s of Commic Terns migrating. The totals below are not the final ones, they will certainly be higher. I would have stayed longer but I was just to cold despite the evening sunshine.
Red-throated Diver: 25+E
Fulmar: 8 around
Gannet: c500 E
Brent Goose: 26E
Common Scoter: 350+ E
Velvet Scoter: 11E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 500+E
Whimbrel: 15+E
Arctic Skua: 50+E
Great Skua: 10+E
Pomarine Skua: 6E
Little Tern: c50E
Black Tern: 7E
Commic Tern: 10,000+E a good proportion of which were being identified as Arctics
Sandwich Tern: c500E
Harbour Porpoise: c15 off shore
Common Seal: 1 off shore
I am sure we missed more Black Terns and some Roseate's. My excuse is the the birds were coming through so thick and fast it was impossible to check them all.

A very poor record of spring sea watchings most enigmatic bird