Warm, dry and sunny, SE2 - At long last an overcast, humid night suitable for moth activity that duly delivered with 11 species of macros in the garden trap this morning, including Burnished Brass, Waved Umber and a migrant Gem.
We then joined Chris P off the boardwalk at Dungeness for a two hour (0800-1000hrs) seawatch (where a Pom Skua had just gone east) in hazy light with a light south-easterly that swung south-west by the end of the watch. There were few birds moving except for an intermittent trickle of Common Scoters (c100), Sandwich Terns, small mixed flocks of Dunlins, Sanderlings and Ringed Plovers, a few Gannets and Black-headed Gulls, a distant Black-throated Diver and an Arctic Skua. Moving onto Kerton quarry where 90 Oystercatchers were joined by 15 Bar-tailed Godwits and two Grey Plovers, plus a scattering of Whimbrel, Redshank, Common Sandpiper and Whimbrel around the margins and a Common Tern.
PS: The adult male Bar-tailed Godwit present at Kerton quarry yesterday was ringed on 11th May 2015 in the Dutch Wadden Sea, making it at least ten years old. In Dec 2018 it was reported wintering in Mauritania. Many thanks to the Netherlands Ringing Group for the prompt response.
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