Sunday, 9 February 2020

Sunday 09/02/2020

We started the sea watch from the hide, but abandoned the hide and moved to the fishing boats after 20 minutes as we deemed the hide unsafe in the storm force winds:
Huge waves rolling in at Dungeness this morning
07.40-09.20 with AL
Brent Goose: 5E
Pochard: 1W drake
Goosander: 1E drake
Red-throated Diver: 5W
Fulmar: 3W       1E
Gannet:132W      9E
Cormorant: many present n/c
Great Skua: 1E
Kittiwake: 124W
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Common Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Guillemot: 2W
Razorbill: 1W
Auk sp: 5W
Tying the door open and leaving some shutters open to hopefully allow the wind to blow through


A short video showing the spume blowing.
The hide was still there at 16.30, hopefully it will be OK now as Chris Philpott has installed a couple of temporary Acro props.

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