Arctic Terns in the Sunshine!

Spooonbill west past the sea watch hide at 06.56 this morning

05.00-09.30 with AJG,MB,RW,ML,AL,GH,NB et al
Greylag Goose: 2 out
Shelduck: 3E  2 out   4 in
Common Scoter: 21E
Red-throated Diver: 1E  1W
Great-crested Grebe: 16 around
Fulmar: 3E  1W
Manx Shearwater: c15 feeding offshore
Gannet: 174E
Spoonbill: 1W
Sparrowhawk: 1E
Oystercatcher: 27E
Ringed Plover: 2E
Dunlin: 1E
Turnstone: 2E
Whimbrel: 222E
Curlew: 1E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 227E
Great Skua: 2E
Arctic Skua: 2E
Kittiwake: 8E.  1W
Sandwich Tern: 536E
Common/Arctic Tern: 72E
Auk Sp: 13E  10W
Swallow: 9 in
Wood Pigeon: 1 on beach
Black Redstart: 1 singing behind hide
Crow: 8 in
Goldfinch: 15E
Linnet: 6E
Harbour Porpoise: 6+
Fox: 1 on beach

Some of the Whimbrel & Bar-tailed Godwits past today

Fulmar over the hide

Beach Fox

 Bittern at the ARC this morning

Arctic Tern

14.30-17.45 with AJG who kindly collated the numbers, also SO,DW,GH & ML.
Brent Goose: 1W
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 49E
Shag: 1E A scarce bird at Dungeness!
Oystercatcher: 1E
Grey Plover: 2E
Dunlin: 20E
Knot: 4E
Whimbrel: 92E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 65E
Great Skua: 3E
Arctic Skua: 9E
Kittiwake: 13E
Sandwich Tern: 136E
Arctic Tern: 2,140E they were still coming past when I left!
Little Tern: 6E
Black Tern: 2E   The first past this year!

Still only small numbers of summer migrants around the Dungeness area, though I did manage to locate a Turtle Dove on the marsh.