Friday, 20 September 2019

Friday 20/09/2019

 Sooty Shearwater
06.30-08.30 with AJG & JTM:
Brent Goose: 8E.   32W
Teal: 6W
Wigeon: 11W
Common Scoter: 3E   12W
Great-crested Grebe: 1W
Sooty Shearwater: 2E
Gannet: 91E
Cormorant: 43 around
Knot: 1 on beach
Arctic Skua: 5W
Kittiwake: 6W
Mediterranean Gull: c20 around
Sandwich Tern: 650+ feeding and moving between Lade and Rye Bay.
Common Tern: 6 around
Guillemot: 2 on
Razorbill: 2W   1 on
Sand Martin: 17 out
Swallow: 24 out
Meadow Pipit: 14 out
Grey Wagtail: 2 out
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 6+
 Sooty Shearwater
A mid morning visit to the ARC found a general clear out with no sign of the Pectoral Sandpiper, but a juvenile Ruff was present along with 2 Greenshanks, Great White, Cattle and Little Egret.
Common Tern
A slow but very pleasant sea watch basking in the glorious afternoon sunshine.
13.00-16.00 from the fishing boats with AJG & JTM
Brent Goose: 3E
Common Scoter: 22E
Gannet: 105E
Turnstone: 1 around
Knot: 1 around
Great Skua: 1E   1W
Arctic Skua: 3 around
Kittiwake: 3E
Mediterranean Gull:  c20 around
Sandwich Tern: c350 mainly into Lade bay
Common Tern: 8 around
Razorbill: 1 on
Auk sp: 1W
Swallow: 14 out
Common Seal: 1
Grey Seal: 2
Harbour Porpoise: 10+

Stunning early morning sky scape of Dungeness yesterday morning 
Jacques with 1 of the many Mackerel he caught yesterday and very tasty they were too

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