Dungeness - cool, sunny, NE 3 - Have spent the last couple of mornings in bright sunshine continuing with the Ringed Plover survey, trudging across the shingle ridges between Lade and ARC, along the foreshore at Penn Bars and around the power station complex. Only one more territory was located but it was good to see several Brown Hares along the way and my first Hairy Hawker at the back of ARC. All ten species of warblers were noted plus Little Ringed Plovers at Boulderwall and Kerton Quarry, several parties of Whimbrel and Barwits over, a Great White Egret on ARC and my first Common Sandpiper at Long Pits today. Two one hour, late morning sessions in the seawatch hide with the locals produced very little apart from a flock of six Shelducks up-Channel yesterday, while today was much better with a trickle of Common Scoters, Red-throats, Whimbrels, Barwits, Sanderlings, Med Gulls, Gannets and a Bonxie, which was new for the year for me, and rarer than a Pom (there had been several earlier) these days!
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