MORE SHADES OF GREY,BLACK AND WHITE TOO.

Thought I had better get up to date,ain`t it funny how time slips right on away.
Been out a few times despite the grim weather,Reculver,North Foreland and Pegwell with Barry Woolhouse was uneventful in the main,except for ze banter wiv Phil at Pigswill Bay.

 RECULVER STONECHAT

 FULMAR PETRELS AT NORTH FORELAND

 LAPWINGS KNOT AND A REDSHANK AT PEGWELL
The wind at a gloomy Dungeness was not conducive to standing around outside for long,but I did catch up with the Black Throated Divers and a female Goosander on New Diggings,a Great Egret on A.R.C. and a female Smew was just outside Hansons for a short time.

 GREAT WHITE EGRET

GOOSANDER

 BLACK THROATED DIVER

 BLACK THROATED DIVER

 BLACK THROATED DIVER

 RED HEAD SMEW

RED HEAD SMEW
Back to Dover and the harbour where guillemot and razorbill numbers are rising and a grey seal has joined the commoners,the first sighting on wednesday afternoon.

 GREY SEAL-note the straight muzzle and forehead.

A FLOTILLA OF AUKS-RAZORBILL is tail end charlie.
Today a grey seal popped up so I took some more pics,on inspection this was a second animal with different markings.

GREY SEAL,this one has a reddish muzzle and less mottling on the face.
Also of note today was a juvenile eider,whether it is the same bird that has come back is uncertain,but it is hanging out in the same place,so it may well be.

DISTANT JUV MALE EIDER
There now follows a series of guillemot pics,these are of a bird in summer plumage :-

You can wake up now the guillemot has gone.
To end with I can`t remember which day it was but the sun came out briefly and the Little Gull turned up again also briefly.

LITTLE GULL

And finally

A SUN BLESSED TURNSTONE. DOESN`T IT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!