A Juvenile Great Skua passing the fishing boats, now very much a notable bird since the Bird Flu!
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| Great To see Polish Ringed Black-headed Gull TJVV back for its 5th winter at Dungeness |
07.40-09.0 & 13.00-14.30 with RW, OL TW, JY, DW
Brent Goose: 103W 6E
Shoveler: 3W
Common Scoter: 6W 8E
Great-crested Grebe: 1E 3 present
Marsh Harrier: 1 in off the sea
Common Tern: 9 E/ present
Sandwich Tern: 46W
Little Gull: 2E
Kittiwake: 5W 2 present
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 101W 12E
Common Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Great Skua: 1W
Arctic Skua: 5W 3E
Auk: 42W 16E
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Gannet: 211W 33E
Swallow: 82 out to sea
Harbour Porpoise: 4
Grey Seal: 1
Common Scoter passing the fishing boats this afternoon
Glossy Ibis on Boulderwall Fields by Cooks Pool
A visit to Hanson saw plenty of common wildfowl but nothing notable the fast diminishing islands, though a Black-necked grebe was seen there late afternoon. As I type a thunder storm is crashing around outside with torrential rain, so I think this is the end of ARC islands, Burrowes islands won't be far behind them.
On Burrowes this afternoon 3 Yellow-legged Gulls and 2+ Caspian Gulls of note but no sign of the Black Tern. There are still double figure numbers of Common Snipe at Christmas Dell but the hay fields are avian free despite plenty of water. A few Bearded Tits are being seen daily from the ramp at Denge Marsh.
One of 7 Gems in the trap this morning
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