Sea watching is tough. Turn your back and you miss the big one. Congratulations to Andy Lawson for keeping at it and reaping his reward in the form of a Great Shearwater, one of the most sought after sea bird by the Dungeness locals.
However my reward was as I stared through my scope, a Thresher Shark which breached vertically, it's long tail whipping at least a metre clear of the waves just a couple of hundred yards off shore
06.00 - 08.45, 09.30- 11.30, 14.00 - 16.15,
Shoveler: 1E
Common Scoter: 18E 5 on 14W
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Fulmar: 2E 4W
Manx Shearwater 7E 18W
Balearic Shearwater: 12W
Sooty Shearwater: 3W
Shearwater sp: 2W (Balearic/Manx)
Gannet 874W 522E
Sandwich Tern: 39W
Common Tern: 57W
Swift 18W
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Grey Seal: 2
Thresher Shark: 1
However my reward was as I stared through my scope, a Thresher Shark which breached vertically, it's long tail whipping at least a metre clear of the waves just a couple of hundred yards off shore
06.00 - 08.45, 09.30- 11.30, 14.00 - 16.15,
Shoveler: 1E
Common Scoter: 18E 5 on 14W
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Fulmar: 2E 4W
Manx Shearwater 7E 18W
Balearic Shearwater: 12W
Sooty Shearwater: 3W
Shearwater sp: 2W (Balearic/Manx)
Gannet 874W 522E
Sandwich Tern: 39W
Common Tern: 57W
Swift 18W
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Grey Seal: 2
Thresher Shark: 1
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