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Pete Coleman Dover Kent.

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Dover, South East Kent. Birds/bird song. Full English, Fish and chips

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A fairly quiet 2 hour sea watch at Samphire hoe this morning. 4 Red throated divers, 6 auks, 59 cormorants, 33 gannets, 17 common gulls, 7 kittiwakes, 1 med gull & a single great crested grebe

20.02.2026 09:50 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A sea watch first thing this morning at Samphire hoe. 93 razorbills, 18 red throated divers, 90 gannets & 203 unidentified auks all east. Then moved on to my passion of peregrine watching. The resident pair saw off an intruding male, some superb flying action. The odd sleet shower, but enjoyable

14.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally managed to get out this week, what with the rain, hospital appointments and a blocked sewage pipe. A blustery sea watch at Samphire hoe for an hour, 20 Red throated divers, 16 gannets, 38 common gulls, 18 kittiwake, 3 Fulmars & a few auks

07.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dungeness. Some of the 4,000+ Cormorants from this mornings watch.

30.01.2026 10:40 — 👍 78    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2
View out the slats of the Seawatch hide at Dungeness

View out the slats of the Seawatch hide at Dungeness

Red-throated Diver day around on Dungeness

A total of 758 all west in the 1hr 45min seawatch from hide first thing

A surge of 462 pushed out west by a fishing boat in Lade/Greatstone Bay in a 15min slot at 12.45

Little Gulls, Eider, Fulmars the extras this morning

#Kentbirding

28.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sea watching at Samphire hoe this morning. 577 Red throated divers, 1364 Auks, 100+ Kittiwake, & Common gulls, 250+ Black headed gulls, 21 Gannets and approximately 2500 Cormorants feeding offshore

28.01.2026 11:31 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sea watching Samphire hoe this morning 93 gannets, 69 common gulls, 16 kittiwake, 200+ black headed gulls, single auk, 5 red throated divers, 3 divers sp

24.01.2026 10:32 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Garden birds the last few days, Blue & Great tits, sparrows, robin, collard doves, magpies and a fly over Little egret was a new one for the garden list

04.12.2025 07:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the weather has turned colder more birds are visiting the garden. Blue & great tits, wrens, sparrows, robin, magpies & and a crow. Just the day for sitting and watching the feeders with a nice cup of tea. May even have a slice of cake as well.

19.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just as dawn was breaking this morning, i heard a blackbird singing in the distance. This is quite normal this time of year, especially when its mild. A few bursts as if he's tuning up ready for the spring song. Lovely to hear the melodic notes at any time.

16.11.2025 08:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A pleasant hour spent on Deal pier. A nice mix of gannets, divers, a curlew, kittiwake and plenty of great black backs

27.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely autumn morning yesterday at kearsney Abbey/Russel gardens Dover. Sat on a bench watching the black headed gulls, listening to the Robins & the calling goldcrests & long tailed tits.

27.10.2025 07:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This sparrowhawk was living up to its name after successfully catching a house sparrow in my garden this morning

23.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Samphire hoe this morning, 2 Ring ouzels, 4 siskin, wheatear & 2 chough

26.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Samphire hoe this morning 4 Ring ouzels. Crap boc shot

25.09.2025 08:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great Farthingloe, 7am before the rain . Large movement of hirundines, mainly House Martins, scattering of chiffs & blackcaps.

20.09.2025 11:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely pictures

17.08.2025 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abbots cliffe, a nice mix of whitethroats , lesser whitethroats, willow warblers, chiffs, reed warblers, wheatear, Whinchat and a juv cuckoo over the last couple of days. The juv cuckoo still present this morning near the nissen huts

15.08.2025 11:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honey buzzard over Priory fields school Dover

18.06.2025 11:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've got the Kowa bd 8x25 DCF. Brilliant pair of binoculars in my opinion.

15.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Samphire hoe this morning. What i believe to be Pyramidal and common spotted orchids

13.06.2025 10:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I too was there that day to see the melodious warbler. 32 years ago, blimey!

30.05.2025 05:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow! Love the colour on that bankside Paul, superb.

19.05.2025 06:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great Farthingloe A sound clip of a blackbird living by the busy A20 Dover, police car mimicry. Also 2 lesser whitethroat 4 whitethroat
6 chiff chaff, 3 blackcap yellowhammer, 6 song thrushes 6 Robins wren dunnock chaffinch great tit & a further 6 blackbirds a great morning of bird song.

18.05.2025 08:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lovely morning stroll around Worth marshes today. Red kite, Avocet, great white egret, gadwall, shoveler, plenty of Sedge warbs. Banded demoielles & wall butterflies

12.05.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Samphire hoe, birds of note, 2 Lesser whitethroat, 5 Common whitethroat, 4 Swallows, 25 House Martins, 3 Shellduck on the sea. Tough going in this wind

08.05.2025 14:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hoopoe again present near to the water treatment works on B2011. Heard but not seen, very vocal

04.05.2025 06:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hoopoe is now just off the B2011 at Farthingloe near to the water treatment works, very vocal

03.05.2025 08:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great Farthingloe, Dover, very vocal Hoopoe, 2 lesser whitethroat 6 common whitethroat, 5 yellowhammer, 6 blackcap, and a Red kite

03.05.2025 07:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Samphire hoe this morning 4 Oystercatcher E, 2 Sandwich tern feeding offshore, 3 House Martins around the cliffs +single Wheatear

01.05.2025 13:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0