A decent day at Dungeness!

 Juvenile Glaucous Gull at The Patch

This morning at The Patch a party of 9 Little Gulls flew east along with a Brent Geese and dabblers. The Glaucous Gull still present as was the adult Little Gull, the 1w Caspian Gull was new in.

1w Caspian gull at The Patch

Little Gull over The Patch

Still plenty of Firecrests around Dungeness today

Around Beach area and bushes good numbers of Firecrests still along with at least, 3 Black Redstarts 12 Reed Buntings, a single Wheatear, 6 Meadow Pipits and singing Skylarks.

1 of at least 3 Reed Buntings in the Moat

At lunchtime while scanning the fields and sky in front my house I got a message from Mr Brown that he'd seen a Kite sp drifting my way, sure enough a Red Kite appeared (still a scarce bird at Dungeness), also seen 6 Common Buzzards, 3 Marsh Harriers, a Sparrowhawk, a Kestrel and Great White Egret of note. Late afternoon the 3 Smew including the drake on Tanners Pool with c100 Wigeon there also 2+ White Wagtails.

 Some of the 1,700 Brent Geese past the fishing boats this afternoon

Eider past the fishing boats this afternoon

13.13-16.00 from the fishing boats with JTM & RW:

Brent Goose: 1,759 up

Common Scoter: 102 up

Eider: 6 up
Red-throated Diver: 91 up   2 down
Gannet: 72 up
Oystercatcher: 1 up
Avocet: 9 up
Knot: c40 up
Dunlin: c60 up
Little Gull: 7 up
Kittiwake: 32 up
Sandwich tern: 14 up  7 down
Guillemot: 32 up   c30 around
Raven: 2 up
Harbour Porpoise: 4+

Knot & Dunlin

The Bluethroat still showing well at Dusk(1 of yesterdays images)