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8th Apr

There were a decent number of migrants on the land with a Green Sandpiper at the Long Pits, an adult male Hen Harrier, three Buzzards, two Merlins, six Willow Warblers, 30 Chiffchaffs, a Reed Warbler, nine Blackcaps, 26 Whitethroats, a Redstart, 16 Wheatears, a Tree Pipit, two Redpolls and four Corn Buntings.

Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus   Dungeness   8th April 2026 (Nathaneal Poffler)

Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochrurus   Dungeness   8th April 2026 (Nathaneal Poffler.)

Seawatching produced some good records with 73 Brent Geese, 15 Shovelers, five Eider, four Velvet Scoters, 1430 Common Scoters, nine Red-breasted Mergansers, two Grey Plovers, 25 Whimbrel, 20 Bar-tailed Godwits, seven Little Gulls, eight Mediterranean Gulls, 988 Sandwich Terns, a very early Pomarine Skua, a Great Skua and an Arctic Skua, a Black-throated Diver and a Shag. 

Today's highlight might have been a Chough which was present on the Point for 30 minutes or so this morning. Unfortunately the colour rings on its legs showed it be a bird from the Dover (Re) Introduction Programme and is called Betty.

Six Porpoises and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore and two Brown Hares were seen in the Desert.

A Brimstone butterfly was seen.


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