Dungeness - cold, grey, light airs - Following a couple of days of strong westerlies at least the weather appears to have settled down for the forthcoming weekend. A Wednesday morning seawatch in the company of JS delivered my first Arctic Skua of spring along with three Velvet Scoters amongst several hundred Common Scoters. This morning I checked out Lade where a lone singing Willow Warbler was the only passerine of note. It was quiet at the point too with just the usual Black Redstarts and Wheatears in their respective locations, while MC reported a few more Arctic Skuas through earlier. On the bird reserve, where the VC has been closed all week, it was a case of the usual suspects, including a flock of five Glossy Ibis on ARC. At Scotney the Little Gull count reached four birds around midday (JY).
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