Bockhill Diary

Wildlife sightings from the Bockhill area. We are a small group of East Kent birders who have been enjoying wildlife in the St. Margaret's Bay and Kingsdown area of the White Cliffs since October 1994. Here you will find a record of the fauna and flora of this region of Kent.

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Wednesday, 6 August 2025

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 Light westerly wind Sunny spells Fairly typical early autumn day at Bockhill with 13 Willow Warblers, 25 Whitethroats, 12 Lesser Whitethroa...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

23rd March 2025

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A walk along the clifftop from Kingsdown to Hope Point and back, in a light drizzle, we had 30 Meadow Pipits, 2 Rock Pipits, 50 Siskins, 4 B...

22nd March 2025

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 At sea 337 Brent Geese, 153 Red-throated Divers, 2 Great Northern Divers, 1 Arctic and 1 Great Skua moved upchannel whilst a Mute Swan and ...
Sunday, 16 February 2025

15th February 2025

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For three hours in bitterly cold weather Simon and I had a seawatch that produced 236 Red-throated Divers, 1 Black-throated Diver, 20 Oyster...
Saturday, 18 January 2025

17th January 2025

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A sea watch from 09:30 till 12:00 produced very little apart from 385 Cormorants flying N in three flocks and 42 Red-throated Divers flying ...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

17th November 2024

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 A day of herons with 2 Grey Herons, 8 Little Egrets and 2 Cattle Egrets. Also in the area were 3 Firecrests, a Pied Wagtail, Brambling and ...

16th November 2024

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In the Bay amongst the many gulls were 3 Caspian Gulls, an adult and 2 first Winters.   Also 4 Shag feeding offshore. Gerald, Nigel, Simon, ...
Monday, 11 November 2024

10th November 2024

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 Still good numbers of flyovers today with 2060 Woodpigeons, 6 Swallows, 8 Mistle Thrushes, 75 Redwings, 60 Fieldfares, 10 Pied Wagtails, 66...
Sunday, 10 November 2024

9th November 2024

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This morning we stood at the Monument and did a viz.mig. for a couple of hours from 07:00 recording flyover birds moving north. We had 3 Gol...
Thursday, 7 November 2024

6th November

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 "Highlights" included 12 Goldcrests, seven Firecrests, three Chiffchaffs three Fieldfares. Stonechat numbers continue to decline ...

3rd November

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 A brisk easterly wind prompted some movement over the sea including 64 Wigeon, seven Teal, 72 Common Scoter, five R-b Mergansers, four Red-...

2nd November

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 Another uninspiring day in which flyover Snow Bunting and Hawfinch were the only birds of note. Chiffchaffs numbered seven and Goldcrests 1...

1st November

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 Overnight news of a Rose-coloured Starling on a feeder in a garden in at St Margaret's meant that Team Bockhill were in place in the vi...
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