Juvenile Cattle Egret a first for me at Dungeness at the ARC late morning
This morning at the ARC a nice first for me at Dungeness in the form of a juvenile Cattle Egret, also 5 Wood Sandpipers, 3 Ruff, 6 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpipers, a Black Tern several Mediterranean Gulls, at least 1 Garganey, many Sand Martins hawking over the lake and the usual wildfowl.
Black Tern roosting with Common and Sandwich Terns at the ARC
Pied Wagtail busy collecting food at the fishing boats this afternoon
14.15-15.30 from the fishing boats with AJG & JTM:Great-crested Grebe: 2 around
Gannet: 5E 5W
Cormorant: 4 around
Mediterranean Gull: 2W
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 Juvenile around
Sandwich Tern: 2E 27W
Common Tern: 1E 18W
Sand Martin: 497 out
Swallow: 1 out
Pied Wagtail: 1 around
Common Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
1 of nearly 500 Sand Martins past the fishing boats this afternoon
Common Seal with a Skate at the fishing boats
Adult Black Tern at Firth this evening
This evening at firth an adult Black Tern was the highlight, also 2 Norwegian Great Black-backed Gulls JK556 & JK302.
From Hanson at the ARC this evening, the Wood Sandpipers count went up to 7, the Black Tern was still flying around and the juvenile Cattle Egret looked like it was going to roost with the Cormorants.
Ancylolomia tentaculella. Amazingly the 2nd time this very rare moth has found my trap.
Dark Sword-grass
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