Lade - muggy, sunny, W4 - A bright and breezy day with the odd bit of drizzle but nothing like what was forecast. A check of the beach from the Tavern viewpoint at 1230hrs on a falling tide produced 300 Sandwich, 200 Common and two Black Terns on the sands. Five Arctic Skuas, three of which were pale phase adults, harried the terns fishing along the shoreline, while out in the bay several Gannets and a Fulmar noted. Several hundred Curlews and Oystercatchers flew in to feed, plus 20 Dunlins, 15 Barwits and five Knot.
Dungeness - An hour at the fishing boats this afternoon delivered a steady passage of terns, including a Little Tern, two Kittiwakes, a few Gannets and five Arctic Skuas.
Elsewhere today the Wryneck was reported from Galloways, Curlew and Wood Sandpipers from Hanson hide and the American Black Tern still on Burrowes from Makepeace hide.
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