There was a decent bit of movement offshore where the highlight would have been a large shearwater species but unfortunately it was too distant for a positive identification. Waders were a feature of the morning with two Golden Plovers, two Whimbrel, a Bar-tailed Godwit and a Greenshank while numbers were provided by 23 Mediterranean Gulls, 1040 Sandwich Terns, 491 Common Terns and 15 Black Terns. Two juvenile Caspian Gulls and two juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls were on the beach. Other bits and pieces included seven Teal, a Tufted Duck and an Arctic Tern. Fifty-eight Swifts passed through while migrants on the land included a Cuckoo, an early juvenile Merlin, six Willow Warblers, two Sedge Warblers and a Garden Warbler.
At least eight Porpoises and three Grey Seals were feeding close inshore.
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| Porpoise Phoca phoceana Dungeness 2nd August 2025 |
Five Clouded Yellows (inc two of the helice form) were along the power station wall and moths of note included another Acrobasis tumidana and the fifth Observatory record of Narrow-winged Pug.
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| Clouded Yellow Colias croceus Dungeness 2nd August 2025 |