A good walk around the farm this morning, with a good variety of species although nothing special.

Green Sandpiper - 1
Water Rail - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Snipe - 1
Gadwall - c.100
Teal - 29
Wigeon - 7
Tufted Duck - 1
Med Gull - 2w
Kingfisher - 2
Redwing - c.65
Fieldfare - c.40
Mistle Thrush - 3
Bullfinch - 10
Meadow Pipit - 8
Stonechat - 2
Chiffchaff - 4
Goldcrest - 4
Grey Wagtail - 1
Pied Wagtail - 3
Buzzard - 1
Sparrowhawk - 1
Kestrel - 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1
Jay - 2

Mistle Thrush

Onto Climping Beach early afternoon with the tide half way out, a few bits and bobs along the shoreline and on the calm sea.

Med Gull - c.50
Common Scoter - 40
Red-throated Diver - 1 os
Great-crested Grebe - 11
Brent Geese - c.200 os
Grey Plover - 9
Red-breated Merganser - os 5
Guillemot - 1 os
Sanderling - 33
Turnstone - 60
Oystercatcher - 3

Climping Beach from 08:15 produced good numbers of Gannets and Common Scoters feeding offshore and Lapwing and  Curlew in the fields before the Crow scares flushed everything away.

Red-throated Diver - 3 os
Kittiwake - 2w
Med Gull - 1w
Gannet - c.80
Common Scoter - 60 os
Red-breasted Merganser - 15 os
Great-crested Grebe - 1 os
Brent Geese - c.180 os
Sanderling - 55
Curlew - 46
Lapwing - c.130 back fields
Ringed Plover - 1
Oystercatcher - 3w 3e
Turnstone - 50

Received  a report of 2 Long-tailed Duck flying east past Poole Place at 14:53 (OM)

Happy new year to all, first visit out for me this year, nothing of any note but good numbers of wildfowl on the big pool.

Gadwall - c.75
Teal - 42
Wigeon - 23
Tufted Duck - 2
Water Rail - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Snipe - 4
Redwing - 65
Fieldfare - 40
Chiffchaff  - 4
Goldcrest - 1
Meadow Pipit - 1
Stonechat - 3
Bullfinch - 3
Yellowhammer - 1
Pied Wagtail - 7

Onto Climping beach from 13:30 were there was hundreds if not thousands of Gulls, Gannets feeding distantly offshore with loads of distant Auks sp moving mainly east.

Red-throated Diver - 1w 1 on sea
Common Scoter - 5w
Great-crested Grebe - 6 os
Red-breasted Merganser - 2w 1e 2 os
Med Gull - c.45 back fields
Sanderling - c.55
Turnstone - c.75
Oystercatcher - 5w
Kestrel - 1
Goldcrest - 3