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16th Feb

Better weather today, apart from a brief and heavy thunder/hail storm, which allowed for a better check of the land which saw a Snipe, a Woodcock, a Song Thrush, a Chiffchaff, four Goldcrests and two Firecrests. It was quiet overhead with just a Ringed Plover and a Lapwing. The ringing year list got going today with a new Blackbird.

There was a bit of passage over the sea, most of which being eastbound, with the highlights a Little Gull, 122 Kittiwakes, 2124 Auk. sp, 411 Red-throated Divers and a Fulmar. 

Elsewhere, the drake American Wigeon was still at Scotney as was the family of Whooper Swans and drake Scaup, 10+ Cattle Egrets appeared at Cockles Bridge and the 'Eastern' Lesser Whitethroat still showed well in a garden in Lydd village. 
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