• Re-tern of the terns!
    After years of planning, we are now undertaking work on Burrowes Pit to raise the heights of the islands. This will increase the amount of breeding space for seabirds and roosting space for our wintering...
  • Common Terns
    Hi all, I've not managed to get to Dungeness for a while so it was great to have such a glorious sunny day today. I spent much of the day watching the Common Terns fishing. So it was a delight...
  • First tern chicks hatch
    The most unusual sighting over the past couple of weeks has been of a red-head goosander, which has been on the ARC pit since the 14th. The best news has been the hatching of three common tern chicks...
  • One good tern...
    It's been an exciting morning with a whiskered tern appearing over New Diggings at about 9 am. This is only the fifth record of this species on the reserve. It is currently flying around over Burrowes...
  • A tern up for the books!
    Over the last 10 days we have had some bumper bird sightings here at Dungeness! It all kicked off with an American black tern last week - lost on it's path and only a handful of these sighted in the UK...