A light north-westerly wind overnight and slightly cooler conditions brought an arrival of common migrants into the area during the first few hours of light. These included 29 Willow Warblers, six Chiffchaffs, four Sedge Warblers, a great total of 40 Reed Warblers of which 26 were trapped and ringed, five Garden Warblers, 20 Lesser Whitethroats, 56 Whitethroats and a Tree Pipit. Overhead passage was noted with 84 Sand Martins and two Yellow Wagtails, all flew out to sea in a south-easterly direction.
The sea was fairly quiet still, but still plenty of Terns, mostly Sandwich Terns going moving west with 411 passing. A juvenile gull, seemingly a hybrid Caspian x Herring Gull was at the Fishing Boats as well as a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull.
Other bits of interest, there was four Porpoise and a Grey Seal offshore, but on the land an excellent minimum of eight Clouded Yellows were seen across the recording area, one of which was egg-laying and a larva was found. A 'radiata' Small Copper was seen along the Power Station wall amongst a small increase in them and eight Hummingbird Hawkmoths were logged. The moth traps still proved to be fairly quiet.
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| Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis Dungeness (Martin Casemore) |
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| 'radiata' Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas Dungeness |
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| Clouded Yellow Colias croceus Dungeness |