Warm, dry and sunny, light airs - A superb day for a walk along the foreshore with Ted at Dungeness, concentrating on the section between the fishing boats and the lifeboat station, and where a brown Merlin, a Raven and a Rock Pipit were noted; there was no sign of this week`s Glaucous Gull, although `hundreds` of distant large gulls were out on Lade bay at low tide. However, I did connect with a rather smart Great Northern Diver heading down-Channel, plus a few Red-throated Divers, Gannets and Kittiwakes. Two of at least five Grey Seals feeding close to shore exhibited strange behaviour when they briefly leaped out of the water, maybe it was some sort of courtship display?
Last weekend was spent off the Marsh so I missed a few seabirds (eg. Sooty Shearwaters and Leach`s Petrel) blown up-Channel by Storm Bert, but I did get down last Monday around noon, narrowly missing a Great Shearwater, a great rarity at this end of the Channel. There has been little else of note this week during visits to Lade, Pirate Springs and my usual farmland haunts with Ted.
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