A fine bright Sunny morning  with a flat calm sea  produced a Velevt Scoter amongst the flock of Common off Climping Beach.

Velvet Scoter - 1  os
Common Scoter - c.75
Brent Geese - c.600
Great-crested Grebe - 12
Red-breasted Merganser - 2
Shoveler - 2w
Mediterranean Gull - 21
Sanderling - 9
Ringed Plover - 2
Meadow Pipit - 7 Horse paddock
Goldcrest - 6
Grey Partridge - 10 Baliffscourt

Marsh Farm this afternoon in glorious weather

Mute Swan - 4
Teal - 45
Wigeon - 7
Shoveler - 4
Gadwall - 10
Redwing - 20
Mistle Thrush - 2
Chiffchaff - 3
Goldcrest - 1
Grey Wagtail - 2
Pied Wagtail - 5
Meadow Pipit - 3
Reed Bunting - 1
Stonechat - 1
Snipe - 2
Water Rail - 2
Sparrowhawk - 1

Water Rail scurrying across a path

Redwing

Grey Wagtail

A cold bright sunny morning around the patch produced very little with just 25 Sanderling,  6 Grey Plover and 1 Med Gull West Beach and just a single Meadow Pipit there.  A Little Egret on the Golf Course and 5 Grey Partridge in the field west of the Mill. Singles of Treecreeper, Jay, Great-spotted Woodpecker and 4 Goldcrest in Firstwood,  and singles of both Common Sanpiper and Redshank in the Marina.

A brief visit for me around the patch this morning produced the usual fare offshore from the car park, with c.60 Gannet, 70 Brent Geese, 20 Common Scoter, 5 Great Crested Grebe and small numbers of both Sanderling and Turnstone on the tideline. A flock of c.80 Skylark in the fields at the bottom of Longwood and a single Mediterranean Gull flew west there, the highlight being 2 Bullfinch at the bottom of the Mill path.