Arctic Skua
A very tired Bar-tailed Godwit that landed on the beach infant of the sea watch hide
05.30-09.00 & 14.00-17.00 with AH, JS, PT, RW, OL
Brent Goose: 38
Shelduck: 2E
Common Scoter: 55E 5W
Red-throated Diver: 3E 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 5 on
Fulmar: 2E 2W
Manx Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 138E
Little Egret: 1W
Oystercatcher: 12E 2W
Grey Plover: 1E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 64E
Whimbrel: 3E
Turnstone: 4E
Sanderling: 2E
Kittiwake: 34E 3W
Little Gull: 11E
Mediterranean Gull: 12E
Sandwich Tern: 36E
Little Tern: 4E
Arctic Tern: 54E
Commic Tern: 511E
Black Tern: 2E
Pomarine Skua: 4E
Arctic Skua: 8E
Guillemot: 1E
Auk sp: 60E 13W
Merlin: 1 hunting off shore
Hobby: 1 in
Swallow: 20 in
Wheatear: 2 in
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: c25
A short visit to both Scotney and Galloways found very little in the way of new migrants. I had just got home for lunch when Jacob messaged another Black Kite over the power station, I spent a while scoping from the garden with no luck, so I drove down to the power station approach road, where with messages from the DBO I managed distant views of the bird over the transformer,, where it circled up up and lost to view. I just gat back for another try for lunch when Richard messaged that it was over Christmas Dell heading for Burrowes, so another drive to the bottom of the ARC where I could see the Gulls alarming but no Kite! I scanned the ARC and saw the Glossy Ibis fly across and in the background the Black kiter over the Water Tower heading for the airport where it was once again lost to view. There have now been at least 4 Black kites at Dungeness this spring, another remarkable string of records for this species.
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