07.15-08.15 from the hide:
Common Scoter: 7E
Gannet: 3E 4W
Cormorant: 6W
Mediterranean Gull: 1E 1W
Common Tern: 1W
Auk sp: 1E
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Large mixed very distant feeding flock of c200 GBBG, HG, BHG.
Not much of a return for the time, at least it was dry in the hide.
A quick look around the fishing boats found 2 young Wheatears, then the rain started again.
At the ARC the Glossy Ibis was still on its favourite island gorging Medicinal Leeches,. On the Tern raft, there appears to be about 10 pairs of Common Terns but could be more or less as the visibility was poor. a family of Water Rails disappeared quickly into the reed bed in front the screen hide as hunting Marsh Harrier came over, hopefully I'll get my camera back from repair next week as my spare one is very slow to focus and the quality leaves a lot to be desired.
At Boulderwall 2 Great White Egrets were the highlights. A colour ringed (D9CT) Lesser Black-backed Gull was in the roost by the entrance track just before the VC. On Burrowes c30 pairs of Common Terns appear to be nesting on an island, unfortunately a Herring Gull is raising 3 chicks on the same island, so I'm guessing when the Terns hatch none will fledge as the Herring Gulls will have them as a live buffet.
The only waders I could see there was a Redshank and a single Lapwing. PT had a Green Sandpiper in the hay fields.
The seemingly ever present Glossy Ibis yesterday still there today.
Poor image of Six Belted Clearwing at Dungeness yesterday
A rather attractive Grasshopper sp at Dungeness yesterday.
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