With strong winds virtually all the interest was offshore were nearly ten hours of coverage produced eight Ringed Plovers, 76 Bar-tailed Godwits, five Knot, 29 Dunlin, 1859 Sandwich Terns west, three Little Terns, an Arctic Tern, 11 Black Terns, 76 Arctic Skuas (mainly west), 34 Balearic Shearwaters and 885 Gannets, The Caspian Gull was showing at the fishing boats again. The only obvious migrants on the land were two Spotted Flycatchers at the Long Pits.
Two Convolvulus Hawkmoths at the mothtraps was a very nice surprise given the dismal overnight conditions.
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Convolvulus Hawkmoths Agrion convolvuli Dungeness 29th August 2025 |