Adult Yellow-legged Gull in the Fish Shack roost early morning
08.35-09.35 from the sea watch hide with RW:Grey Goose sp: 12E
Common Scoter: 6W
Red-throated Diver: 61W 6E
Great-crested Grebe: 3E 7 o/s
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 14W
Kittiwake: 71W
Mediterranean Gull: 27W 6E
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Common Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Guillemot: 12W 3E
Auk sp: 136W 22E
Common Seal: 1
Mid morning I joined DW at the fishing boats where a Shag (Scarce at Dungeness) had just swam close in shore past him, I managed a brief distant view of it, but the tide was moving faster than I could walk, apart from another Mediterranean gull and 12 Turnstone nothing else of note was seen.
Some of 2,774 Cormorants roosting on Burrowes Pit.
As there were very few Gulls present on Burrowes, probably due to the plague of Cormorants there I decided to count them, a grand total of 2,774 birds present. As I was walking to Firth a Bittern flew from under the hide over the track and out to the New Excavations. From Firth A lovely Firecrest and 2 Chiffchaffs, a drake Goldeneye was showing from Makepiece Hide.
Distant Whooper Swans at Dengemarsh
A quick look at Dengemarsh before lunch found the 2 Whooper Swans still in their usual field, they probably wont be there much longer as the Sheep will soon be moved to where they are grazing. A Great White Egret flew over the reed bed and several Marsh Harriers were quartering the area.
Back at Burrowes this afternoon 2 Yellow-legged Gulls and a yellow ringed 2w Caspian Gull came in to roost around 15.15, but it was already to dark to read the ring and the rain started again.
Back at Burrowes this afternoon 2 Yellow-legged Gulls and a yellow ringed 2w Caspian Gull came in to roost around 15.15, but it was already to dark to read the ring and the rain started again.
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