Dungeness - mild, dry and sunny, SW 5 - A one hour seawatch from the fishing boats this afternoon at high tide, looking out over a choppy sea in good light produced a steady westward passage of Gannets, auks, Kittiwakes Common and Black-headed Gulls. Also in the mix, 15 Brent Geese, two Red-throated Divers, an Arctic Skua, ten Little Gulls and four Sandwich Terns; plus three Swallows out, a trickle of Goldfinches along the foreshore and a Wheatear on the beach. However, the highlight was a Grey Phalarope (reported by SM earlier) that showed briefly at some distance on the colour change around 1300hrs.
I called in at the Tavern viewpoint on a falling tide this afternoon where six species of waders included a flock of 40 Sanderlings along the tideline. There was nothing new on Lade pits from yesterday.
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