Dungeness 8/1/18
07:30 - 13:00 Grey, cold and a biting east wind
On Monday I started at the Patch in hope of finding the Glaucous Gull that had been seen recently, and the second Gull I look at is a 1st winter Glaucous Gull! Hundreds of Gulls were feeding over the boil and I counted over 500 Cormorants leaving their roost on the RSPB reserve. I moved down to the fishing boats were the 1st winter Caspian Gull was still showing and an adult Med Gull cruised up the beach. Off shore 3 Great Skuas, 2 Fulmars a dozen Red-throated Divers and hundreds of Guillemots, Razorbills, Great-crested Grebes and Gannets moving up channel.
Two Firecrest showed nicely on the walk up to Hanson’s Hide but not much of note on ARC 1 Great White Egret and a Marsh Harrier that put all the usual wildfowl up.
Tree Sparrows as normal around the farm and a large flock of Lapwings and Golden Plovers in the nearby fields.
No Sign of the LEO behind the dipping pond, from Makepeace Hide a pair of Smew were hard to find tucked right up against the bank. Spectacle of the day was the huge numbers of Cormorants roosting on the islands, later a count (not by me) revealed that there were 5700 on the islands.
A quick walk around Lade where the Slavonian Grebe and Long-tailed Duck failed to show for me
07:30 - 13:00 Grey, cold and a biting east wind
On Monday I started at the Patch in hope of finding the Glaucous Gull that had been seen recently, and the second Gull I look at is a 1st winter Glaucous Gull! Hundreds of Gulls were feeding over the boil and I counted over 500 Cormorants leaving their roost on the RSPB reserve. I moved down to the fishing boats were the 1st winter Caspian Gull was still showing and an adult Med Gull cruised up the beach. Off shore 3 Great Skuas, 2 Fulmars a dozen Red-throated Divers and hundreds of Guillemots, Razorbills, Great-crested Grebes and Gannets moving up channel.
Two Firecrest showed nicely on the walk up to Hanson’s Hide but not much of note on ARC 1 Great White Egret and a Marsh Harrier that put all the usual wildfowl up.
Tree Sparrows as normal around the farm and a large flock of Lapwings and Golden Plovers in the nearby fields.
No Sign of the LEO behind the dipping pond, from Makepeace Hide a pair of Smew were hard to find tucked right up against the bank. Spectacle of the day was the huge numbers of Cormorants roosting on the islands, later a count (not by me) revealed that there were 5700 on the islands.
A quick walk around Lade where the Slavonian Grebe and Long-tailed Duck failed to show for me
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