Wrong Decision!

Grey heron from Scott Hide

With lots of domestic stuff to be done today I could only get out for couple of hours this morning. I decided to spend my time wandering around the reserve seeing 3 Great White Egrets, 3 Black-necked Grebes, a Peregrine, 3+Marsh Harriers, Blackcaps, 2 Stonechats and lots of Blackbirds and Robins. Although it was a pleasant enough walk it seems that a sea watch would have been more productive as several each of Pomarine and Great Skuas were seen and 2 Great Northern Divers which are surprisingly scarce at Dungeness. It seems there was also a good passage of Mediterranean Gulls as well as a couple of Purple Sandpipers on the beach. The Glossy Ibis is still present on the ARC though it seems to be wandering further afield, maybe because the islands on the ARC are rapidly disappearing.