The highlight of today being a juvenile Osprey that spent a while late morning going between the reserve and the Long Pits looking for its next meal. A decent passage of Yellow Wagtails occurred in the morning with 75 flying east otherwise overhead passage was limited to a Ringed Plover, two Dunlin, a Greenshank and a few Sand Martins. On the land was very quiet, just a Common Sandpiper, one Pied and two Spotted Flycatchers and six Wheatears of note. There was some light passage offshore, again most birds heading in an easterly direction with a Grey Plover, two Black Terns, 210 Sandwich Terns and two Arctic Skuas the highlight.
There was very little to be seen away birds, just four Hummingbird Hawkmoths were noted while offshore three Porpoise and a Grey Seal fed.
Over at Galloways, the Zitting Cisticola is still present in its usual place by the large X post. A few waders on the RSPB reserve included Little Stint and four Ruff also Greatstone beach was covered in Mediterranean Gulls again, with two thousand seen plus lots of Sandwich Terns, other Gulls and waders.
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| Osprey Pandion haliaetus Dungeness (Martin Casemore) |