Storm Gareth

Dungeness - mild, cloudy, SW 7 - Gale force winds courtesy of named Storm Gareth swept up-Channel this morning whipping the sea into a frenzy. As is often the case seawatching is rarely brilliant in such conditions although a 90 minute watch from a draughty seawatch hide did deliver three Bonxies, one quite close. Also noted plenty of Gannets, Kittiwakes, Cormorants, auks, 100 Brent Geese, 10 Fulmars, five Common Scoters, three Red-throated Divers, two Sandwich Terns and a Mediterranean Gull.