Merlin hunting off shore this morning
07.50-09.00 from the fishing boats:Common Scoter: 1W 8E
Red-throated Diver: 7W 2E 1 o/s
Great-crested Grebe: 51 o/s
Gannet: 90W
Cormorant: c150 o/s
Merlin: 1 juvenile hunting
Oystercatcher: 3E
Guillemot: 11W
Razorbill: 109W
Auk sp: 142W
Swallow: 1 out. 2 more over entrance gate
Skylark: 4 present
Shorelark: 1 still showing very well around the puddles
Pied Wagtail: 3 present
Starling: 85 in
A very quiet morning around The Point and observatory, 3 Firecrests, 4 Goldcrests, 2 Blackcaps, 2 Swallows, 2 Black Redstarts and a single Song Thrush.
As Dungeness was so quiet I went along the coast to Folkstone Warren and Copt Point, walking from the Warren to the Point many Robins and Blackbirds but little else of note. At Copt Point c400 Mediterranean Gulls, probably more over a 2 hour period with them coming and going. I found myself a comfortable vantage point to scan through the Gulls and managed to read 26 Darvik rings 1 Hungarian, 1 UK, 3 German and the rest French and Belgian. There were also 6 Sandwich Terns roosting on the rocks.
Starling murmuration
Late afternoon I visited a Harrier roost where 5 Marsh Harriers came to roost but no Hen Harriers, at least 40 Pied Wagtails came to roost several Water Rails and Bearded Tits were calling and 2 Sparrowhawks were around 1 which tried to catch a large Bat species. A small Starling murmuration added to the visit.
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