Another Day at Dungeness!

07.55-08.55 from the fishing boats:

                                              Up Channel                Down Channel

Red-breasted Merganser:                                                  1

Red-throated Diver:                                                         11

Great Northern Diver:                                                       1

Great-crested Grebe:                            24 around   

Gannet:                                  37          62 feeding         138  

Cormorant:                                          Present n/c

Oystercatcher:                         2

Turnstone:                               2

Great Skua:                                                                       1

Black-headed Gull:                        Many Present

Mediterranean Gull:                             4 around

Herring Gull:                                  Many Present

Great Black Backed Gull:              Many Present

Lesser Black Backed Gull:             Few Present

Kittiwake:                                                                       27

Auk Sp:                                                                            2

Stonechat:                                            2 by boats

Common Stonechat & Dartford Warbler(at least 2 present) Kerton Road triangle

The Grey Stonechat Kerton Road Triangle

This afternoon on the reserve Ring-necked Duck,Great White Egrets, Cattle Egret, Little Egrets, Marsh Harriers, Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls, more North Thames colour ringed Herring Gulls, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, Redshank, 2 Kingfishers and Long-eared Owl all seen despite the at times torrential rain.

As I arrived home late afternoon 2 Bewick Swans flew over my house towards the lakes presumably to roost.