So despite the fact that it was raining & pretty dull we of course meet up at the usual meeting place, in the car now we have to decide where to go,no idea is the answer so what always happens when we have no place in mind it's off to Dungeness, where the local came in to that thinking I don't know it's 90 odd miles away.
We are nearly there when Sue's car that Brian had kindly taken for a run decided that it needed diesel to make it go, we have pulled off onto a roundabout & got lucky when out of the blue a petrol station appears & with a bit of stopping & starting again we just make it & fill up & only 97.9p litre,
With we thought our troubles out of the way it's on to Dunge to look for the Glaucous Gull.
The wind is blowing a right Gale & everywhere you look the beach is full of fishermen taking part in a big tournament, so most of the Gulls are hovering just off the beach making the job a bit more tricky with hardly anything roosting on the shingle.The sea is awash with birds but all we manage to pick out with the rain & wind blowing in our faces is Razorbill & Kittiwake for 2 year ticks but no sign of the Glaucous.
A quick drive down the observatory road gets us a single Black Redstart sitting on a wire fence for another year tick.
We never really moved far once back looking for the target bird, no luck again although the Caspian Gull showed well. The dark soon creeps up on us & when we try to start the car it says no, a call to the AA sorts us out after about an hour of waiting so that was not to bad.
Maybe we should of stayed local after all, but 3 year ticks makes it just about worth going & it's always a laugh.
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