A day of quality with a Yellow-browed Warbler in a private garden being the highlight along with a Hawfinch in the trapping area and nine White-fronted Geese and a Lapland Bunting overhead.
Other birds passing overhead included five Golden Plover, 51 Skylarks, 64 Swallows, seven Mistle Thrushes, two Fieldfares, four Tree Sparrows, 165 Meadow Pipits, a Rock Pipit, 101 Chaffinches, eight Bramblings, 1139 Goldfinches, 28 Siskins and 14 Reed Buntings. Grounded migrants included 37 Chiffchaffs, a Lesser Whitethroat, four Goldcrests, a Firecrest, 42 Blackbirds, 85 Robins and a late Redstart while other bits and pieces included a Great White Egret, a Barn Owl, two Merlins and five Dartford Warblers.
The sea was pretty quiet but still produced 116 Wigeon, six Pintail, 18 Teal, two Little Gulls, ten Mediterranean Gulls and a Black-throated Diver of note.
A Grey Seal was seen offshore.
Although it was fairly cold and windy overnight the moth traps still produced a goody in the form of a White-speck.
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| White-speck Mythimna unipuncta Dungeness 19th October 2026 |