24/09/2020

Light phase Arctic Skua over a stormy sea at Dungeness today

06.30-09.45 + 11.10-12.10 from the fishing boats with AJG & JY,

Common Scoter: 3W

Great-crested Grebe: 7 o/s

Gannet: 657W    9E

Cormorant: 67 o/s

Arctic Skua: 2 o/s

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Common Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Greater Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 1,107W     102E

Swallow: 53 out

Harbour Porpoise: 3+

Grey Seal: 1

A dark phase Arctic Skua claims its prize

Black-necked Grebe on the ARC viewed from the causeway

The Glossy Ibis feeding in its favourite pool

A very windswept ARC today the highlights being 2 Curlew Sandpipers, the Glossy Ibis, a single Black-necked Grebe, 4 Common Snipe , 4 Great White Egrets, many Swallows and Sand Martins hawking over the lake and the usual wildfowl and waders. 

Sand Martins over Denge Marsh Flood

Great White and Little Egret with a Mute Swan at Denge Marsh

Cattle Egrets at Denge Marsh

You can now drive from Boulderwall past Denge Marsh Hide and round the hay fields to Springfield Bridge and have a picnic, at the same time as photographing the birds, but you must have a blue disabled sticker in your car. 😐

The WW11 Dakota leaving Lydd airport this afternoon