An excellent sea watch!

As I arrived at The Point this morning my expectations of a good sea watch were not high, the first half hour re-enforced this and then the passage started. Totals collated by AJG  also present DW:

07.00 - 11.40 all west unless stated.

Great Northern Diver: 1       Probably the same bird flew east a couple of hours later.    

Gannet: 82

Brent Goose: 1,895

Shelduck: 10

Wigeon: 6

Common Scoter: 118

Velvet Scoter: 1  came past with a Merganser

Eider: 1 very smart drake

Red-breasted Merganser: 15

Great Skua: 4

Arctic Skua: 1

Sandwich Tern: 29

Little Gull: 178 an excellent passage

Kittiwake: 21

Mediterranean Gull: 7+ around

Probable Hybrid Black-headed Gull x Mediterranean Gull: 1 around
Razorbill: 4
Auk sp: 19

Turnstone: 94 on beach

Purple Sandpiper: 2 on beach

Dunlin: 129

Knot: 3

Grey Plover: 2

Greenfinch: 7 in

Starling: 6 in
At c14.00 while checking the gull flock DW saw a Sabine's Gull fly east. 

Great Northern Diver

Eider

        Hybrid Black-headed Gull x Mediterranean Gull? (Look out for this one Mick and Richard)

Fred Olsen Line "Braemar" and a container vessel about to crush a Submarine.

While at home having my lunch news came of a Long Eared Owl on the reserve at Hookers that was showing in a Willow. So instead of going back to the beach I went to the reserve and minutes later PB was drawing me a diagram of exactly which Willow the bird was in. MH and PT kindly gave me a lift to the Willow, on arrival minutes later we found an empty tree the bird had gone and i'd missed a Sabine's Gull.
MH, PT and myself then went round Dengemarsh and Galloways  seeing very little of note.
When I left them I went to Hanson where the Glossy Ibis was still on what remains of the islands, giving a nice flyby when flushed by a Marsh Harrier, also there a Goldeneye, a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, a Chiffchaff and a male Merlin dashed across the lake.
In the fading light the Long-tailed Duck was asleep in the bay by the road at Scotney GP.