A better sea watch from the fishing boats this morning, with a Purple Sandpiper being the highlight, rare bird at Dungeness these days, also a minimum of 3 Merlins present on the beach and hunting out at sea.
08.00-09.30 from the Boats with OL
Brent Goose: 7W 8E
Shoveler: 5E
Wigeon: 2W
Teal: 6W
Common Scoter: 4E
Great-crested Grebe: 16E 7 present
Oystercatcher: 17E
Turnstone: 1 present
Sanderling: 1W 16E
Purple Sandpiper: 1E
Sandwich Tern: 2E
Kittiwake: 10W
Black-headed Gull: present
Mediterranean Gull: 2W
Common Gull: present
Herring Gull: present
Great Black-backed Gull: present
Guillemot: 6E
Auk: 73W 12E
Red-throated Diver: 153E 26W
Gannet: 80E
Cormorant: present n/c
Merlin: 3 present
Grey Seal: 2
Common Seal: 2
A look around the beaches at Dengemarsh Gully and Galloways found 100s of large Gulls but alas I couldn't pick out a Glaucous among them. Yet another Merlin was hunting the beach at Galloways.
I didn't visit the reserve today and I didn't hear of any news from there.
The very active Hume's Warbler showed well occasionally
A local Long-eared Owl was a little shy today
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