Dungeness in the wind.

The boys & I had been lucky enough to see the Forester's Tern yesterday afternoon so with not to much about we head off to the old favourite of ours despite the that fact we knew it was going to be a nasty sort of day with storm Angus hitting the Kent coast. Dungeness really was blowing a fierce gale, we took a lot longer to get there & never arrived  till 8 am.
First port of call was the pool by Boulderwall Farm just past the entrance to the reserve, a Ring-necked Duck was reported & Brian still needed one for a year tick.
The car was being buffeted about & to open the car doors was really hard to do with the wind really gusting, so we pulled the car closer to the pool & picked out the Duck without to much trouble & we also managed to spot the Cattle Egret following the cows around the field, not needed by any of us for a tick but a photo had to be taken & with the wind blowing the cameras about it was never going to be great.The Ring-necked Duck was being bounced about in the strong waves but it was showing well.
Next up we make a silly decision to head up to the boats by the beach & we are blown about all over the place, holding onto the scopes really tightly we scan the sea but apart from many flocks of C Scoter & the same amount of Cormorants a few Gannets, G C Grebes, Kittiwakes, a couple of Divers, nothing much was happening, so it's off to look at the Gulls to see if there is anything special about, but not today despite giving it a lot of time looking.
Heading home now & on the way we spot a few Bewick Swans amongst some Mute Swans I always like to see them. Later we spot a Buzzard feeding on the ground & that means trying to get a photo of it.

Cattle Egret

The Buzzard after it flew into the trees

Being bounced around Ring-necked Duck