Arctic Skuas

Dungeness - mild, overcast, drizzle, sw 4 - 0800-1000hrs - From the fishing boats this morning a westbound passage of 21 Arctic Skuas and a Balearic Shearwater the highlights, plus hundreds of Sandwich Terns and Gannets, two Common Terns, six auks and a Common Scoter. Hundreds of hirundines went out, despite the poor weather, along with a late Swift. Passerines around the boats included three Wheatears, 20 Meadow Pipits, Skylark and Linnets.
  From the Hanson hide late morning: two Cattle and one Great White Egret, Black Tern, two Little Gulls, two Greenshanks, Ringed Plover, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 20 Pintail, Garganey, Sparrowhawk, Hobby and hundreds of hirundines over the lake.