Seawatching for 8.5 hours produced a drake Garganey, four Red-breasted Mergansers, 50 Grey Plovers, 144 Sanderlings, three Whimbrel, a Redshank, a Pomarine Skua, four Arctic Skuas, seven Mediterranean Gulls, 40 Little Terns, 34 Black Terns and an excellent 4400 Common Terns whilst the scarcest birds of the day were a party of three Spoonbills which flew west.
Six Porpoises were seen offshore and two Brown Hares were seen at the north end of the Desert.
Seven Grizzled Skippers, a Holly Blue and three Red Admirals were the best of the butterflies.
Moth trapping produced three Silver Y's and an uncommon micro for us, the Yarrow feeding Dichrorampha acuminitana.
Dichrorampha acuminitana Dungeness 10th May 2016 |