Dungeness - cool, cloudy, S4 - Following a run of northerly winds, with not very much joy on the seawatching front, yesterday the wind swung around to a south-easterly releasing a surge of terns and skuas up-Channel (see trektellen website for details). As a result the seawatch hide was packed this morning, so as I had Ted in tow I tried my luck from the Patch hide where a steady movement of Gannets in both directions was underway along with pulses of passage Common and Sandwich Terns and at least 10 Arctic Terns close to shore. Just after 0710hrs a Pomarine Skua flew east followed by two Arctic Skuas and two Fulmars. A walk around the bushes produced very little in the brisk breeze apart from a few Wheatears and a couple of inbound Swallows.
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Yesterday we walked Romney Salts checking the recently drilled fields where five Wheatears (two Greenland types) and two Yellow Wagtails were the highlights. Also noted several each of Lesser and Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Skylark, Linnet, Meadow Pipit, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, Reed and Sedge Warbler and Swallow, plus 20 Stock Doves, two Common Buzzards and a Kestrel.
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