Dungeness: A 1w Caspian Gull with a sparkling persil white head at the fishing boats this afternoon, as usual typically aggressive in the melee. Another flew straight through. #UKbirding#KENTbirding
Shellness Kent 1110-1725 LTSkua 3 possibly 5. ? Same birds Pom Skua 15 Arctic Skua 142 Bonxie 33 Sabs Gull 3 Balearic SW 2 Sooty SW 1 Manx SW 1 Kittiwake 105 Little Gull 11 Arctic Tern 2 Common Tern 117 Black Tern 16 Little Tern 5 Sandwich Tern 37 Gannet 238 Med Gull 19 #seabirds#kentbirding
5 hour seawatch at Grenham Bay Birchington produced 1 Sooty Shearwater, 1 Pom Skua, 17 Bonxies, 64 Arctic Skuas, 252 Kittiwake, 12 Manx, 6 Com Scoter and 47 Little Gulls. A few miles west they had Sabine's Gulls, Long-tailed Skuas and Balearic Shearwaters, not for me today. #kentbirding#ukbirding
Stodmarsh this morning before rain stopped play. 11 Great-whites out of roost, juv Black Tern, 3 poss 5 Bittern, 2 Garganey, 1 Pintail, 1 Hobby and the Scarlet Ibis out of roost. #kentbirding#ukbirding
Typically elusive Gropper on the patch this morning was my second local one this Autumn. Otherwise quite birdy with a lone Sand Martin loitering, a few small flocks of Skylarks and Mippits over and a Stoat providing some entertainment #kentbirding
..all the while picturing of the Birdtrack map I checked before setting out and thinking "Yup, #KentBirding niceties this stretch of the county's coast last 14 days quite pleasantly chaseable by train. Might have to turn up at one to prove it I guess " 😇 2/2
