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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Saturday, 21 February 2026

21st February 2026

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 Phil, Simon and I met in the Bay and from 08:30 - 11:00, with birds moving mainly upchannel, we had 107 Red-throated Divers, 76 Brent Geese...
Monday, 2 February 2026

2nd February 2026

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On a seawatch in the Bay, Jay and I joined by Chris Cox, had good numbers of birds although of few species. Moving north were 68 Brent Geese...
Saturday, 24 January 2026

24 January 2026

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 A seawatch from 08:30-10:30 produced many birds moving in every direction. There were 25 Red - throated Divers moving NE, 300 Kittiwakes ...
Thursday, 22 January 2026

21st January 2026

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 Jay and I did a seawatch in a strong SW wind which made the sea very rough making counting the birds extremely difficult. Cormorants were e...
Monday, 19 January 2026

18th January 2026

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 Far fewer birds moving on the sea today with only 34 Red-throated Divers and 9 Auks however moving upchannel, the opposite way to yesterday...
Saturday, 17 January 2026

17th January 2026

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A seawatch of three hours with a very light SW breeze produced singles of Great northern Diver and Black-throated Diver, 372 Read-throated D...
Monday, 22 December 2025

21st December 2025

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 I arrived at the sea to find about 300 Cormorants and 120 Gannets feeding just offshore. After some 30 minutes or so they gradually moved o...
Wednesday, 17 December 2025

17th December 2025

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 Seawatch for two hours produced more of the usual, most notable  50 Cormorants, 25 Gannets, 2 Curlews, 108 Red-throated Divers and 119 Auks...
Monday, 15 December 2025

14th December 2025

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 Although there were good numbers of birds at sea today there were very few species, most notable were 142 Red-throated Divers, 514 Auks, 3 ...
Saturday, 6 December 2025

5th December 2025

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Another seawatch with very little of note apart from 105 Red-throated Divers moving down channel. Simon, Jack. 
Thursday, 4 December 2025

3rd December 2025

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 Another short seawatch with very little apart from 34 Red-throated Divers and a few Auks SW.

2nd December 2025

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 On a seawatch from 09:15 - 10:45 there were birds moving downchannel including 27 Cormorants, 12 Auks and 45 Red-throated Divers.   
Sunday, 30 November 2025

29th November 2025

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 Today at sea it was much rougher and for two hours there were birds moving downchannel and I saw a Red-throated Diver, a Velvet Scoter, 216...
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