Glaucous Gull

Dungeness - mild, cloudy, w 3 - Yesterday`s Glaucous Gull remained along the foreshore ranging from the lifeboat station to the power station, but mostly around the fishing boats at high tide, where also a 1st winter and an adult Caspian Gull on the beach. Offshore hundreds of Great Crested Grebes on the sea along with scores of Guillemots, Kittiwakes and Red-throated Divers.
Scotney- We joined CP for a check of the pits this morning. On the front fields the usual feral Barnacle Goose flock was present but there was little else of note on the roadside lakes apart from 50 Shelducks at the Sussex end and a few Redshanks. Through the farm yard and a Black Redstart was surprise hunting insects on a log pile by the farmhouse.
  Outback hundreds of Lapwing, Golden Plover and Wigeon on the fields and around the lakes. Also noted a Great White Egret, Common Buzzard and Marsh Harrier. We walked out to the game cover, by the dung heap, where small numbers of Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, Song Thrush and Goldfinch present plus a Brown Hare, something of a scarcity these days.