A cold watch this morning 4ºC in force3 WSW breeze. No improvement in the birds made it seem much colder.
07.50-09.30 with RW, OL & Sue H
Great-crested Grebe: 4 present
Oystercatcher: 5E 1W
Kittiwake: 41W
Black-headed Gull: Present n/c
Common Gull: Present n/c
Herring Gull: Present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: Present n/c
Guillemot: 1E 3W
Razorbill: 2E
Auk: 27W 58E
Red-throated Diver: 44W 93E
Gannet: 51W 23E
Cormorant: Present n/c.
Grey Seal: 1
7 Russian White-fronted Geese over Lydd Fields taken from my garden, a nice garden year tick.A 2w Caspian Gull on Burrowes before being disturbed by the work party
You can just about make out 3 Water Pipits in the above image, in the hayfield behind Christmas DellWater Pipit
The Long-tailed Duck and Great Northern Diver are still to be found on the New Diggings, I couldn't see the diver on Burrowes but it is probably still present. On Walland there were 34 Bewick Swans (per John Kirk) at Midley. The wintering Greenshank is still at Scotney but there was no sign of the 2 Tundra Bean Geese today but could still be present.