Thursday, 3 September 2020

03/09/2020

06.00-08.30 from the fishing boats with SP & AJG who collated the numbers:
Wigeon: 2W
Common Scoter: 13W
Great-crested Grebe: 2W
Gannet: 24W
Great Skua: 2W
Arctic Skua: 2W
Sandwich tern 233 down
Common Tern 2 down
Auk sp:1W
Sand Martin: 695 out
House Martin: out 38
Swallow: 540 out
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
Some of the 100s probably 1,000s of Sand Martins over the ARC this morning
Newly fledged Swallow from the screen hide nest
Glossy Ibis still present today
In 2 visits to the ARC today, The Glossy Ibis was still showing well, also 10 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Bar-tailed Godwits, c200 each of Golden Plover and Lapwing, a Little Stint, 3 Dunlin, a Ruff, 3 Avocet, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Ringed Plovers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Garganey and many Hirundines.
A scan through the large Gulls in the roost by the entrance track to the VC found an adult Yellow-legged Gull, a new for Dungeness Norwegian ringed Great Black-backed Gull JC544 also a returning Normandy ringed G.B.B.Gull 99L.
Above is the known life history of G.B.B.Gull JC554
1st calendar year Caspian Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon
13.30-16.00 from the fishing boats with CP and AJG who collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 8W  1 o/s
Graet-crested Grebe: 6 o/s
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 32W
Cormorant: 17 o/s
Turnstone: 2W
Mediterranean Gull: 1W
Caspian Gull: 1 1st calendar year on beach
Med Gull 1 adult down
Sandwich Tern: 424W
Common Tern: 28W
Black Tern: 1W
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
1st calendar year Caspian Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon

1st calendar year Caspian Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon

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