28/11/2021

A bitterly cold morning, so I had a drive around Walland Marsh looking for wild geese and swans and failed on both accounts. There were a couple of small flocks of Fieldfare around the Cheyenne Triangle,  also few Redwing and Song Thrushes feeding in various hedgerows that the have so far escaped the ravages of the local guardians of the countryside efforts to rip them all out.

At Scotney despite much scrutiny I was unable to find any wild geese among the 100s of feral geese, a Black-necked Grebe was the best I could find.

In the Boulderwall Fields both the Ibis were still present along with 3 Cattle Egrets, 2 Great Egrets flew over towards the ARC. On Burrowes most the Gulls were at the southern of the lake which meant they could only be viewed properly from the Firth Viewpoint, I wasn't prepared to stand there being blown about by the freezing wind, nor was any one else from what I could see.

1 of 3 late Sandwich Terns drifting into Lade Bay

13.00-14.30 from the fishing boats, joined by CT.

Common Scoter: 4W

Red-throated Diver: 16W   5E       4 on

Great Northern Diver: 1W   

Great-crested Grebe: 4E       4 on

Gannet: 28W     15E

Cormorant: c350 around

Kittiwake: 4E        7W

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 2E

Common Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 1E

Sandwich Tern: 3E

Great Skua: 1E

Razorbill: 12W       4E

Guillemot: 16W      27E

Auk sp: 108E     44W

Gret Seal: 1

A very distant Great Northern Diver, surprisingly scarce at Dungeness

A regular at the fishing boats