An excellent 4-hour seawatch (from 06:30) from the car at GORING GAP this morning produced 10 Manx Shearwaters west (a group of eight, then two singletons) and three Arctic Skuas east (both year ticks), as well as five Bonxies, 232 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 33 Common Scoters, a Shelduck, eight Red-throated Divers, 28 Fulmars, two Great Crested Grebes, eight Kittiwakes, a Guillemot, 37 Sandwich Terns and an eastward flurry of 24 Mediterranean Gulls. It was great to witness a busy sea again, and the onset of spring migration along the Channel! DKC Later, 11:35-12:10 saw a Bonxie, 40 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, a Fulmar and nine Gannets pass, as well as three Great Crested Grebes on the sea CH
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