Dungeness: A fairly quiet day, a very distant Osprey and Spoonbill, a Hobby in off the sea, my first Redwing of the Autumn, the local Little Owl and a juvenile Arctic Tern glowing in the early morning sunshine were the the highlights.

Mixed flock of 200 plus Hirundines still feeding over Dengemarsh #kentbirdmigrationday

A few Sand Martins and Sparrowhawks still over Dungeness but very little else. #kentbirding

Redwing, Rock Pipit, Tree Sparrow, Siskin at Dungeness Bird Obs #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

Semipalmated Plover dazzled and ringed in southern Ontario this month.

I missed the Eastbourne bird , ahhh the Glossy Ibis, one of them started off at Swanscombe 😳

I saw that bird at the time it was my 271st UK bird , later on I saw Ruddy Ducks at Staines Reservoir. A few weeks later I started my first ever job working in an NHS laboratory and could go birding on Dartford marshes every lunchtime😮😃

The KOS Big Bird Migration Watch is this Saturday – Swallow statistics from member Andrew Henderson. Movement can be seen almost anywhere but is concentrated near the coast, where counts of more than 10,000 a day are quite common. The chart shows Kent average daily peak counts 2020-22. #kentbirding