Cool, cloudy, showery, SW 5 - The light overnight rain showers continued into the morning as we checked out Kerton quarry for high tide roosting waders. Present were 11 Bar-tailed Godwits, 15 Curlews, Ringed and Grey Plover, plus the usual breeding Lapwings, Redshanks and Oystercatchers on the main island. Post-breeding flocks of wildfowl included a Bar-headed Goose amongst 100 feral geese, 100 Tufted Ducks, 20 Pochards, 10 Mute Swans and two Shelducks. Moving onto Dungeness where a seawatch from the hide (1115-1215 hrs) produced 20 Gannet, 15 Sandwich Tern, 10 auks, six Common Scoter, an Arctic Skua and three distant west bound Manx Shearwater (17 noted by JS earlier). We then called in at the bird reserve where the Sand Martins proved entertaining feeding young and where several Tundra Ringed Plovers were on a distant island. Reports from ARC confirmed the first local breeding record of Red-crested Pochard with four ducklings, while 17 Hobbys were counted over Dengemarsh (ROR).
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