Dungeness - cold, sunny, WSW 3-4 - 0700hrs - An hour in the seawatch hide first thing produced decent numbers of Red-throated Divers, Kittiwakes, auks, Cormorants and gulls, but few Gannets rounding the point, plus three Bonxies down and two Common Scoters up-Channel. Many more gulls were on the sea, including a 1st winter Caspian Gull, along with a hundred or more Great Crested Grebes. At the Patch more gulls over the boil and distant views of the wintering Iceland Gull down the beach towards Penn Bars.
A check of Lade revealed just the usual wildfowl and nothing of note as a result of yesterdays named Storm Eunice, apart from a few old willows blown over by the ponds. By midday the wind and rain had returned...
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