Dunge

I committed to a morning of free time today and spent it at Dungeness with Dad and Jim. We arrived early and scanned new diggings adding two year ticks in the shape of a Long-tailed Duck and a Red-throated Diver. Down at the beach we saw another thirty Red-throated Divers and added our third year tick of the day with some distant Gannets. The sea was pretty quiet and after adding Peregrine to the days count we headed off to Scotney where we found a flock of fifty or more Tree Sparrows and Jim picked out a ring-tail Hen Harrier to add another couple of year ticks. Four Cattle Egret in the sheep pen at Cockles bridge gave up another nice year tick too and as we left we found a 48 strong herd of Bewick's Swan and a Yellow Hammer on the way out at Brenzett allowed the pointless year list to move to 141. The day count was a respectable 68