Dungeness - cool, cloudy, SE 3 - 0615-0900hrs - With the wind from the `right` direction there was only one place to be first thing this morning - in the seawatch hide with the regulars. A steady up-Channel passage of (mostly distant) scoters, auks and terns was underway including a flock of 49 Arctic and five Little Terns, plus a trickle of Kittiwakes and Gannets. Several Red-throated and two Black-throated Divers went through along with five Shelducks, two Shovelers, two Mediterranean Gulls, two Fulmars, a Brent Goose and a Whimbrel. However, as always the skua tribe stole the show with a single, very distant Pomarine Skua (the second of the season after one just before I arrived), four Arctic Skuas at medium range and `best of the bunch` a close and strikingly marked Bonxie.
Yesterday`s Ted tour of the point yielded a flyover Serin at Long Pits (thanks to DW`s keen hearing) but little else other than the now established breeding warblers and two Wheatears in the Desert. Kerton quarry was bustling with nesting activity from breeding wildfowl and waders, including a brood of Egyptian Geese on the water.
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