Data Protection

At Dungeness Bird Observatory we take security of your data very seriously. The data we hold is kept securely on a password protected device and we never pass on any information to a third party. For more information please read our Data Policy available here.

Local weather

Update

The Observatory can accommodate up to 9 people in two dormitories, you need to bring your own sleeping bags and it is self-catering. As well as Birdwatchers, we welcome people from many areas of interest including Moths, Butterflies, Bugs and Beetles or just a general interest in Nature and the local environment. Please forward any Dungeness recording area records to the Warden.
You can still support the Obs by using Give as you Live when shopping online.

28th Aug

With an increasingly strong north-easterly wind blowing most of the interest was offshore today with two juvenile Caspian Gulls of particular note along with 16 Teal, a Balearic Shearwater, 19 Mediterranean Gulls, four Yellow-legged Gulls, two Little Terns, six Black Terns and five Arctic Skuas. Singles of Tree Pipit and Siskin were the only birds of note on the land.

Three Porpoises and singles of Grey and Common Seal were feeding offshore.

A Mediterranean Stick-insect was seen on the garden again.