A sunny day with winds coming from the south-west in varying strength. It was generally much quieter, with a reduction in migrants seen from the last couple of days with just four Wheatears, a Redstart, a Spotted Flycatcher and 45 Whitethroats, plus a small scattering of other common warblers. A bit more passage overhead yielded 115 Sand Martins, 24 Swallows, nine Yellow Wagtails and yet more Crossbills with five west. A very smart juvenile Buzzard, which was incredibly pale underneath, mooched about the area before turning back north.
Movement over the sea, had a slight increase on the recent days as 195 Common Terns, 280 Sandwich Terns, 49 Kittiwakes and three Fulmars flew past, mostly west. A total of three juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls came to bread at the Fishing Boats. The most notable sighting of the day came from the seawatching hide but was not a bird with nine Bottle-nosed Dolphins travelling west.
Other animal news included two Porpoise and a Grey Seal feeding offshore, but another exciting discovery being 80 Wasp Spiders between the Observatory and the Power Station. The moth traps contained the third Lunar Thorn for the Observatory, as well as the years first Tree-lichen Beauty.
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| Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis Dungeness |