Friday, 15 January 2016

15th January


Still gorgeous, bright and sunny but with an even colder, biting northerly wind; the Fishing Boats were quiet first thing with an adult Mediterranean Gull offshore the only thing of note.   Birds around Hookers and Dengemarsh then included a Dartford Warbler which called a couple of times near the ramp, a ringtail Hen Harrier, a Kingfisher, 2 Brent Geese, a Great White Egret, another adult Mediterranean Gull, a Peregrine and a Raven on the pylons by Springfield Bridge.

                A walk round the point late afternoon in the lovely evening sun then produced the 1st winter Caspian Gulls and Glaucous Gulls; at least 10 Kittiwakes coming in to eat fish scraps, a Danish ringed Great Black-backed Gull and a Long-tailed Duck briefly offshore.
 

Front and back Hen Harrier

Stonechat

Danish ringed Great Black-backed Gull - ringed as a chick in 2014 and has been here at Dungeness for the last two consecutive winters
 

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