Monday, 7 May 2018

Another Superb Dungeness Sea Watch!

Hopefully any Pomarine Skuas tomorrow will be closer!
A very long but brilliant sea watch in brilliant weather and better company: AJG,ML,GH,RW,NB,DW.JTM et al: Nearly 6,500 birds of 35 species past today!
04.55-19.00
Shelduck: 5E
Shoveler: 7E
Common Scoter:423E
Red-breasted Merganser: 1E
Red-throated Diver: 4E
Black-throated Diver: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: 16+ around
Fulmar:3E. 7W
Manx Shearwater: 9E   3W
Gannet: 89E      42W
Cormorant: present n/c
Oystercatcher: 17E  21W
Turnstone: 8E
Grey Plover: 43E
Sanderling: 78E
Dunlin: 17E
Knot: 138E
Curlew: 1 over
Whimbrel: 194E
Bar-tailed Godwit:: 547E
Great Skua: 7E
Arctic Skua: 24E
Pomarine Skua: 15E
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1 over
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull present n/c
Little Gull: 2E
Kittiwake: 19E    3W
Sandwich Tern: 853E
Common/Arctic Tern: 3,509E
Arctic Tern: 106E
Little Tern: 80E
Black Tern: 2E
Guillemot: 2W
Auk sp: 4W
Swallow: 12 in
Harbour Porpoise: c20
Grey Seal: 1
 Whimbrel overhead
Arctic Skua in hot persuit
Arctic Skua
 Bar-tailed Godwits
More Whimbrel
 The poor light conditions cannot possible convey the spectacle of all these migrating Terns

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