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10th Feb

More of the same with lots of Gannets, 3000+ Cormorants, Kittiwakes, Guillemots and Razorbills feeding offshore and 260 Dunlins passing through.

 Marine mammals were well represented with two Common Seals, two Grey Seals and a Porpoise being seen.

Common Seal Phoca vitulina   Dungeness   10th February 2019
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9th Feb

Little change in the weather or the birds with plenty feeding and passing offshore and 200 Red-throated Divers, two Mediterranean Gulls and a first-winter Caspian Gull being about the best on offer.


Gulls en masse at the fishing boats.
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8th Feb

A very stormy day with about 400 Brent Geese moving up-channel and big numbers of gulls including an adult Mediterranean Gull and a first-winter Caspian Gull, a Great Skua and a 1000+ Guillemots.
There was no coverage of the bushes.
Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans   first-winter   Dungeness   8th February 2019
A Common Seal and a Grey Seal were also feeding offshore. 

 Elsewhere, the two Whooper Swans and three Cattle Egrets continue to feed in the fields at Cockles Bridge and a drake Smew can be seen on Burrowes Pit.
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7th Feb

A very windy day and despite large numbers of commoner gulls feeding offshore there was very little else to report other than a single Great Skua.

 Two Grey Seals were feeding off the fishing boats.  
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6th Feb

A thoroughly miserable, very foggy day with even the sea invisible for much of the time. A few Brent Geese flew east in the odd clearer spell but not much else was seen.

 A Common Seal was feeding offshore again.
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5th Feb

A dry but dull day with light SW winds resulted in some offshore movement with 496 Brent Geese heading up-channel and 1,018 Red-throated Divers, nine Fulmars, 306 Gannets, 431 Kittiwakes and a Great Skua heading west. Large numbers of Guillemots and Cormorants continue to feed offshore.

 Very quiet on the land.
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4th Feb

In miserable weather most of the coverage was looking to the sea where a juvenile Glaucous Gull was of note along with 102 Brent Geese, three Great Skuas, a second-winter Caspian Gull and lots of Kittiwakes and Guillemots.

 A Common Seal was feeding off the fishing boats.
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3rd Feb

Very little to be seen.
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2nd Feb

Very little to report on a mostly miserable day.

 Elsewhere, a Common Crane was seen on the RSPB Reserve. A drake Smew was also new for the year.
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1st Feb

An adult Mediterranean Gull and first-winter Caspian Gull were among the reduced numbers of gulls feeding at the Patch this morning. 
The wintry weather overnight failed to produce much in the way of new on the land with just six Redwings of any interest. A Dartford Warbler was tailing a Stonechat around the Fish Hut area and a Firecrest was seen again in the trapping area.
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