Dungeness - 0530 - 0800hrs - cold, dry and sunny, N2 - Another bitterly cold early morning seawatch with very little happening, at least by late April Dungeness standards. A flock of 33 Little Gulls and a Black-throated Diver were the only migrants of note along with a trickle of Sandwich and Common Terns, Gannets, Red-throated Divers, Brent Geese, an Arctic Skua, a Barwit and two Mediterranean Gulls. The Iceland Gull remained on station at the Patch and several Swallows came in off. A Grey Seal and several Porpoises were feeding offshore amongst plunge-diving Gannets.
The first large scale movement of hirundines over the lakes at Lade comprised around 200 mainly Swallows and Sand Martins with about 20 House Martins and 10 Swifts. More Sedge Warblers and Whitethroats had arrived over night adding to a cacophony of warbler song around the ponds.
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