Garden First!

 First Long-tailed Tit after 6yrs

Due to the miserable weather this morning, I spent longer than usual drinking coffee and staring out into the garden, where I saw a long overdue first for my garden, Long-tailed Tits, 3 of them coming to a fat feeder.

I joined Mark and Chris at the fishing boats around 08.30

Thanks to Mark for collating the totals.

07.15-09.00 

Common Scoter: 23 down

Red-throated Diver: 12 up

Great-crested Grebe: 10 on sea
Fulmar: 52 down
Gannet: c40 off shore feeding
Great Skua: 1 down
Caspian Gull: 1 adult down
Kittiwake: 75 down
Razorbill: 15 around
Guillemot: 100+ around

 Glaucous Gull at The Patch

At The Patch the Glaucous Gull was showing well among the usual Gulls, a few colour ringed gulls were read including 1w Great Black Backed Gull JZJ93 which has been around Dungeness for a few months now. 

Norwegian ringed JZJ93  

A visit to Lade Pits saw both the Long-tailed Ducks on Lade South though both kept to the far side of the lake.

Late afternoon on the reserve the Glaucous Gull came into roost as usual, though little else of note was seen on the lake. In the Boulderwall Fields c500 Golden Plover and 2 Great White Egrets were notable. Considering the weather conditions the birding wasn't that bad.