Rain on and off through the morning and a moderate southerly breeze led to a ringing-free day with all the attention again on seawatching; there wasn’t as much passing as yesterday but totals did include 36 Brent Geese, 6 Common Scoter, 6 Curlew, 122 Dunlin, 10 Gannets, a Great-crested Grebe, an Arctic Skua across the common and then north (must have come out of the river), 3 Kittiwakes, 146 Knot, 2 Red-breasted Mergansers, 7 Red-throated Divers, a Razorbill, a Shoveler, 14 Teal and 26 Wigeon.
Not much else too mention with birds on the land limited to 2 Bramblings, 11 Chaffinches, 2 Rock Pipits, 10 Siskin and 2 Skylarks.
I was walking along Kingsfleet in the afternoon when the message came out of a Dotterel with 400 Golden Plover flying around fields just north of….Kingsfleet; I could see the flock flying around in the distance and soon picked out the smaller plover in the flock which came slightly closer before heading off across the river and away – rubbish views and if I hadn’t of known it was there I would have seen the smaller bird, wondered what it was and that would have been it!
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