Tuesday, 30 August 2022

30/08/2022

1w Yellow-legged Gull

A strong NE wind does not bode well for sea watching at Dungeness as todays paltry totals attest.
07.00-08.00 from the boats joined by JK, 

Teal: 8W
Common Scoter: 1W
Gannet: 121E 
Cormorant: present N/C
Whimbrel: 1 over heard only
Black-headed Gull: present N/C
Mediterranean Gull: 3E    All juvs
Common Gull: present N/C
Herring Gull: present N/C
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile around
Great Black-backed Gull: present N/C
Sandwich Tern: 69E   
Common Tern: 8E
Arctic Skua: 5E     1W
Guillemot: 2E    1W
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Seal: 2
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
An Osprey put in an all too brief appearance at the ARC this morning



4 Glossy Ibis dropped onto the mud in front of Hanson Hide



Another impressive list of waders at the ARC today with 2 Little Stints, 2 Wood, 2 Green and 6+ Common Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank, 2 Spotted Redshank, Common Redshank, 5 Ruff, Avocet, 20+ Black-tailed Godwits, Oystercatchers, single Knot, 140+ Golden Plover, Lapwings, 7 Ringed Plovers, 10+ Common Snipe, also present 6 Garganey, 2 Great White Egrets, 4 Cattle Egrets, Little Egrets,Bittern, Marsh Harriers, etc all from Hanson Hide.
Green Sandpiper from Hanson
Spotted Redshank bathing at Hanson

Ruff from Hanson
Common Sandpipers from Hanson
Pectoral Sandpiper on Dengemarsh at midday

At least 8 Clouded Yellow were around the hay fields

Cormorant 099 first seen on the ARC on 10/08/2022. 
It was ringed on 18th May 2022 at Hale Duck Decoy in Cheshire. 

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