A Few More Poms!

1 of today's Pomarine Skuas 

05.00-11.30 from the sea watching hide with AJG,MB,ML,AL,DW,PB et al

Brent Goose: 11 up
Common Scoter: 158 up
Velvet Scoter: 5 up
Eider: 18 up
Red-throated Diver: 1 up
Great-crested Grebe: 18 around
Fulmar: 24 up  3 down
Manx Shearwater: 1 up
Gannet: 658 up
Cormorant: present n/c
Marsh Harrier: 1 out     1 in c1hr later
Oystercatcher: 4 up
Little Ringed Plover; 1 up
Grey Plover: 2 up
Sanderling: 4 up
Bar-tailed Godwit: 4 up
Whimbrel: 2 up
Great Skua: 18 up   2 down
Pomarine Skua: 11 up
Arctic Skua: 32 up
Mediterranean Gull: 7 up
Little Gull: 6 up
Kittiwake: 51 up
1w Iceland Gull: still at The Patch
Little Tern: 15 up
Sandwich Tern: 68 up
Arctic Tern: 7 up
Commic Tern: 862 up
Black Tern: 7 up
Guillemot: 4 up
Auk sp: 17 up  2 down
Swallow: 4 in
Harbour Porpoise: 4+

                              Pomarine Skua Flocks and Times
3 @ 06.10,  1 @ 06.40,  2 @ 07.30,  2 @ 08.10,  1 @ 08.34,  2 @ 10.25

 Great Skua

a flock of 18 Eiders, a rare sight these days at Dungeness.