An Excellent Dungeness Sea watch!

Arctic Turn over Burrowes this afternoon

05.00-12.30 &15.00-18.30  BC, AJG, OL, RW, JTM, DW, DS, MH,CP, TS, ML et al
Eider: 3E
Common Scoter: 353E    61W
Red-breasted Merganser: 2E
Red-throated Diver: 18E
Great-crested Grebe: 14 around
Fulmar: 48E   36W
Manx Shearwater: 411W     61E
Gannet: 763W    309E
Cormorant: present n/c
Oystercatcher: 5E  1W
Whimbrel: 1E
Great Skua: 31E
Arctic Skua: 29E
Pomarine Skua: 9E
Mediterranean Gull: 1W.  2nd cal yr
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull present n/c
Kittiwake: 79W     11E
Sandwich Tern: 707E   55W
Common/Arctic Tern: 668E
Common Tern: 96E
Arctic Tern115E    123W
Little Tern: 16E
Guillemot: 60W.  4E
Auk sp: 64W    17E
Harbour Porpoise: 3+

Bar-tailed Godwits at Cooks Pool this afternoon

In a break from sea watching during the worst of the rain I visited the reserve where on Tanners Pool a Spoonbill was asleep, later by Cooks pool some Bar-tailed Godwits were showing well in the down pour, while over lakes 100s of Arctic and Common Terns, a couple of Little Gulls from Dennis's Hide, also a few more Bar-tailed Godwits, a couple of Sanderling and a Greenshank. Later a Black Tern and 2 Little Gulls per OL et al. 

A quick stop at the ARC on my way home saw more Arctic Terns and 2 Hobby's viewed from the causeway.
On arrival at home 2 Yellow Wagtails alighted on the fence opposite my house and a Cuckoo was singing from the overhead cables.