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18th December

Limited coverage today but two Firecrests were seen at the Long Pits and the regular first-winter Caspian Gull was in the gull roost again.
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17th December

Another two new Caspian Gulls were the highlights of the day with a second-winter bird at the Patch in the morning and a first-winter bird dropping in briefly at the offerings of bread at the fishing boats in the late afternoon. The long-staying first-winter bird was also seen at both the Point and the Patch during the day where an adult Yellow-legged Gull was also present.

Three Chiffchaffs were seen around the northern Long Pit and six Siskins flew over.

Caspian Gulls Larus cachinnans   first-winters   Dungeness   17th December 2015
Todays new bird (above) and the regular bird (below).

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16th December

Extremely quiet offshore but three Caspian Gulls were seen during the day at the Point with new adult and second-winter birds and the first-winter bird first seen on the 10th.

A Kingfisher was seen on the southern Long Pit, a Firecrest was seen in the trapping area and 11 Siskins flew over.
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15th December

Limited coverage today but a two-hour seawatch in the morning produced just three Gadwall and a Little Gull of note.
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14th December

Seawatching continues to provide most of the interest with 14 Shelducks, a Goosander (a surprisingly scarce bird offshore), nine Red-breasted Mergansers, a Black-necked Grebe, a Great Skua, 45 Kittiwakes and a few auks passing west of interest. However, there was almost a spring feel to the day with 140 Brent Geese passing upchannel.

A new second-winter Caspian Gull was seen in the roost in the morning.
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13th December

Seawatching this morning produced a Pomarine Skua and a Sandwich Tern. The afternoon gull watching session revealed three Caspian Gulls on the beach, although only one was a new individual, and an adult Yellow-legged Gull.
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12th December

With a brief spell of calm weather this morning a check of the bushes was in order and produced at least eight Firecrests and six Chiffchaffs in the trapping area and around the Long Pits.

Seawatching was pretty uneventful but in the afternoon the third-winter Caspian Gull (PNXB) was seen again and coming to the offerings of bread.
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11th December

A 2.25hr seawatch this morning produced 640 Gannets but not much else other than a drake Eider and a few auks. Yesterdays first-winter Caspian Gull was seen again in the gull roost this afternoon.
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10th December

Another stormy day with seawatching and gulling the only reasonable options. Nearly six hours of watching produced five Red-breasted Mergansers, four Fulmars, a Sooty Shearwater, a Snipe, two Great Skuas and singles of Little and Mediterranean Gulls of note and numbers provided by 344 Great Crested Grebes, 1010 Gannets, 53 Kittiwakes and 192 auks (mostly Guillemots). An adult and a first-winter Caspian Gull and three Yellow-legged Gulls were feeding and roosting at the Point.
Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans   first-winter   Dungeness   10th December 2015   

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9th. December

Very quiet offshore although a new adult Caspian Gull and an adult Mediterranean Gull was seen at the Patch in the afternoon.
Three Firecrests and two Chiffchaffs were seen in the trapping area and 17 Chaffinches, 60 Goldfinches, 29 Siskins and a Redpoll flew over.


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