04.50-09.00 &11.15-18.15 thanks to AJG for collating the numbers JC,RO et al
Common Scoter: 203E 29W
Red-throated Diver: 7E
Black-throated Diver: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 16 around
Fulmar: 14E 9W
Manx Shearwater: 40+ around
Gannet: 667E 38W
Oystercatcher: 17E 4W
Dunlin: 7E
Sanderling: 15E
Turnstone: 2E
Grey Plover: 6E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 3E
Whimbrel: 6E
Curlew: 1E
Great Skua: 3E
Pomarine: Skua: 6E
Arctic Skua: 14E
Kittiwake: 75E
Little Tern: 14E
Sandwich Tern: 497E
Common/Arctic Tern: 1,915E
Arctic Tern: 16E
Roseate Tern: 1E @18.00
Guillemot: 1E
Auk sp: 119E 5W
Swallow: 2 in
Harbour Porpoise: 10+
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Seal: 1
Thanks to Matt Eade for for letting us know that 4 more Pomarine Skuas were on there way, though this year very few of the Splash Point flocks have reached Dungeness, the lure of 4 very close Poms made at least 4 of us stay till 17.51 when they arrived, though sadly a long way off shore, but 9 minutes later a lovely Roseate Tern came past with a small flock of Common Terns.
It seems once again land birds were few and far between on the peninsula in this continuing poor spring for migrants. 2 Bee-eaters flew around the fishing boats watched by OL while I was few100s yards away at the sea watch hide this afternoon, normal Bee-eater misses resume.
Common Scoter: 203E 29W
Red-throated Diver: 7E
Black-throated Diver: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 16 around
Fulmar: 14E 9W
Manx Shearwater: 40+ around
Gannet: 667E 38W
Oystercatcher: 17E 4W
Dunlin: 7E
Sanderling: 15E
Turnstone: 2E
Grey Plover: 6E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 3E
Whimbrel: 6E
Curlew: 1E
Great Skua: 3E
Pomarine: Skua: 6E
Arctic Skua: 14E
Kittiwake: 75E
Little Tern: 14E
Sandwich Tern: 497E
Common/Arctic Tern: 1,915E
Arctic Tern: 16E
Roseate Tern: 1E @18.00
Guillemot: 1E
Auk sp: 119E 5W
Swallow: 2 in
Harbour Porpoise: 10+
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Seal: 1
Thanks to Matt Eade for for letting us know that 4 more Pomarine Skuas were on there way, though this year very few of the Splash Point flocks have reached Dungeness, the lure of 4 very close Poms made at least 4 of us stay till 17.51 when they arrived, though sadly a long way off shore, but 9 minutes later a lovely Roseate Tern came past with a small flock of Common Terns.
It seems once again land birds were few and far between on the peninsula in this continuing poor spring for migrants. 2 Bee-eaters flew around the fishing boats watched by OL while I was few100s yards away at the sea watch hide this afternoon, normal Bee-eater misses resume.
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