Dungeness - mild, cloudy, showers SSE 5 - 0900-1030hrs - With the wind in the `right ` direction I headed down to the fishing boats to join a clutch of locals on a seawatch. Large numbers of auks and Gannets were on the move down-Channel along with a steady flow of Sandwich Terns, plus a few Kittiwakes, Mediterranean Gulls and Red-throated Divers, three Little Gulls. two Red-breasted Mergansers, a Common Scoter and a Curlew. Pretty poor fare really, and not a skua or shearwater whilst I was on site.
Moving onto the bird reserves where the highlight was seven Cattle Egrets feeding close to the road amongst the stock and two flyover Glossy Ibises. The wind was whipping across Burrowes where two Black-necked Grebes and four Great White Egrets were the only birds of note amongst the usual waders and wildfowl.
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