Mild, cloudy, showers - A seawatch from the boats this morning in a fine drizzle was notable for the great skeins of Cormorants coming out of the bay; at least 6,000 birds but probably many more were on the move. Also noted on the sea, feeding on a shoal of fish amongst the Cormorants, were hundreds more auks, Kittiwakes, Gannets and a few Red-throated Divers.
This past week has been taken up mostly with family matters but when I`ve been out birding with Ted at Lade, Dungeness and around New Romney nothing much has changed; Lade still has up to five Goldeneyes and a Pintail, while a few Snipe have been disturbed from the wet fields behind south lake and Lade north. The bay continues to attract good numbers of shorebirds.
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