Hundreds of birds at Dungeness

We set off at 5 am & head to Dungeness before going on to look for the Black Stork in Sussex, that was the aim, but after arriving at Dunge the place is alive with over 500 Yellow Wagtails & over twenty Whinchat all along the road to the lighthouse.
The last two weeks got us only one Whinchat, so quite a surprise to see so many this week, we expected a few more but not numbers like this
We are on the watch this morning as we have a family do to get back by lunch time.
So with that in mind we knock the trip to the stork on the head & spend all morning here.
A scan of the sea gets us a tick when a Great Skua knocks into a Gannet & pinches it's catch & had a go at drowning it, the Gannet got lucky & managed to escape.
Common & Sandwich Tern pass by along with a few Kittiwake, one single Common Scoter seen amongst loads of Gannets, a Yellow- legged Gull passes by as well.
A fellow in the hide who works at the obs tells us what the count was on the Yellow wags so our own estimate was a little short.
Back down by the lighthouse in the garden Brian spots a Pied Flycatcher from the car, a quick walk around the garden soon gets us onto the flycatcher & we are able to get a few other people onto it as it sits back down on the fence.
We all needed this for a year tick so a good spot by Brian. Whitethroat & Willow warbler seen in good numbers, we then pick out 3 Black Redstart before it's off for a quick look in Hanson hide looking over arc pit we see 3 Wood sandpipers 1 Little stint a couple of Ringed Plover.
Now for a quick drive home to be in time for the family get together.

Rear view of Whinchat

Whinchat

Black Redstart

So many & all I get is this crap photo of one