Penduline Tits & Glaucous Gull

Dungeness - 1000hrs - mild, sunshine/showers, gale force sw - Another shocking night with the wind threatening to lift the roof from the cottage during the early hours. A damage assessment in daylight showed nothing missing, but the strong winds continued to cause problems throughout the day.
At the boats hundreds of gulls were slumped down on the shingle ridges at high tide and it took a while to locate yesterdays 1st winter Glaucous Gull hunkered in one of the falls. Eventually, the lot were spooked by a Peregrine and drifted off towards the power station.

                                Gull flock, Dungeness

ARC/New Diggings - A quick scan from the causeway road revealed the two Black-throated Divers in the far corner, close to the bank, sheltering from the gale on New Diggings, while a Great White and two Little Egrets were feeding in the new pools at the eastern end of ARC.
Following a call from SB this afternoon concerning a pair of Penduline Tits showing in front of Hanson I joined DW and PB who`d been watching them 15 minutes before I arrived. An hour later and there was still no sign so I wandered along the flooded boardwalk and joined another birder where we relocated the pair of tits moving through the willow scrub. At least one of the Pendulines was sporting an ankle bracelet. Also from the hide two Smew and six Little Gulls.

                                Smew, ARC