Yesterday 17th June, I was sitting in Hanson Hide at RSPB Dungeness, trying to find the nesting Avocets, Common Terns, Ringed Plovers, Oystercatchers, Black-headed Gulls and Lapwing at ARC. Amongst the cacophony of Common Tern sound I picked up the call of Little Tern and saw two that had landed on one of the islands with a covering of stones they immediately started to behave as if they were looking for a suitable nesting location and started to wander the island and on several occasions started to form a nest scrape. Even when they were chased off by a Common Tern they appeared to be reluctant to leave and returned to the island only to the be chased off by a Little Gull. This time they departed towards Burrowes Pit and it seemed didn't reappear and have not bee seen since.
Whilst a brief visit, this is the first time that attempted breeding by Little Tern has been recorded on the peninsula since 1976 when a pair were hanging on at the Point.
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