Kentish Plover to finish the day!

A bright sunny morning with a light NW wind made for a very poor and cold sea watch.
06.15-07.45 with AJG who collated the numbers:
Shoveller: 8E
Garganey: 1E
Common Scoter: 27E
Red-throated Diver: 14E
Great-crested Grebe: 14 on
Gannet: 101E
Kittiwake: 3E
Sandwich Tern: 4W   2E
Guillemot: 1 on

Wheatear by the lighthouse early morning

A Chiffchaff was on the perimeter wall as we left the sea watch hide, round the old lighthouse 3 Wheatears, but the garden was devoid of migrants. 

 Between The Moat and the power station perimeter fence a smart male Black Redstart with 2 more female type birds, a White Wagtail inside the fence and the 2 Peregrines high up on the pylons. A couple of Chiffchaffs in the Heligoland that Jacques duly processed.

Chiffchaff

A wander around The Desert found a couple more Wheatears and the usual Skylarks, Meadow Pipits and Stonechats.

Stonechat

 Dartford Warblers

Elsewhere on the Peninsular the Whooper Swans are still present as are the 3 Cattle Egrets, Common Buzzards were displaying out by the airport and the wintering Dartford Warblers there will soon be leaving. 

 I had just arrived home this afternoon when Owen called to say he was watching a Kentish Plover on Greatstone Beach, so a few minutes later I joined getting very nice views of this increasingly scarce smart little wader.