Quieter than yesterday with fewer Gulls in the area, bitterly cold wind chill so didn't spend long looking at the sea.

 

Brent Geese - 50E c.175 in fields west of Mill

Red-throated Diver - 2E

Great-crested Grebe - 2E

Red-breasted Merganser - 4W 3E

Gannet - 3E

Curlew - 1E

Dunlin - 1E

Sanderling - 35E

Grey Plover - 8E 15 on beach

Lapwing - 40

Med Gull - 60 beach & fields

Common Gull - c.75

Great-BB Gull - 15

Lesser BB Gull - 1

Stonechat - 1

Pied Wagtail - 2

Mistle Thrush - 1

Song Thrush - 10

Buzzard - 2

Lapwing

Lesser BB Gull

Mistle Thrush

Assorted Gulls bottom of Long Wood

First visit to the patch for a few days found hundreds of both Med & Common Gull in the area. Green Sandpiper flushed from the bottom of Long Wood and Lapwing with at least one Golden Plover in the field south of Ferry Road.

Red-Throated Diver - 7E 4W 3 os

Great-crested Grebe - 3 os

Red-breasted Merganser - 9

Curlew - 2E

Brent Geese - c.200 in field south of long wood

Green Sandpiper - 1

Golden Plover - 1

Lapwing - 40

Grey Plover - 43

Dunlin - 9

Sanderling - 19

Stonechat - 1

Skylark - 8

Pied Wagtail - 3

Meadow Pipit - 5

Buzzard - 1

Common & Med Gull present in good numbers

Sanderling Climping Beach

Onto Marsh Farm which disappointedly was very quiet, with only 9 Teal, 2 Gadwall, Grey Heron, 9 Fieldfare and 6 Yellowhammer.

Fieldfare

Final stop, walking north along the River at Tortington scanning the fields east.

Marsh Harrier - 2

Buzzard - 1

Mute Swan - 38

Wigeon - 40

Teal - 8

Little Egret - 5

Lapwing c.150

Linnet - c.100

Chiffchaff - 1

Song Thrush - 2

Common Sandpiper - 1

Common Sandpiper 

Elmer Rocks 09:00 - 11:00  A good count of Auks on the move this morning with an estimated 4460 West in a two hour sea watch.(OM)

Red-throated Diver - 22E 2 os 

Great-crested Grebe - c.10 os 

Gannet - 80W Brent Goose - 120W 

Red-breasted Merganser 25 os 

Wigeon - 2E 9W 

Teal - 18E 74W 

Razorbill c.50 

Guillemot - 1 or 2 

Lapwing 26W 

Sanderling - 45 shoreline 

Dunlin - 1 

Turnstone - 10 

Ringed Plover - 15 

Common Gull - 35 

Med Gull - 20