A very cold grey morning with very little moving offshore.

Firecrest - 2 Bailiffs

Dartford Warbler - 2 Setaside

Chiffchaff - 2 lMill & long wood

Goldcrest - 6

Grey Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 6

Skylark - 28

Stonechat - 2

Reed Bunting - 2

Raven - 2

Buzzard - 1

Jay - 3

Song Thrush - 2

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Green Woodpecker - 2 

Red-throated Diver - 1e

Brent Geese - c120

Canada Geese - 6e

Great-crested Grebe - 10

Red-breasted Merganser - 12 

Med Gull - 10

Gannet - 2w

Mute Swan - 2e

Razorbill - 1

Ringed Plover - 40

Oystercatcher - 10

Sanderling - 2

Turnstone - 22

Grey Heron - 1

Elmer Rocks 

The sea was fairly calm, but initially seemed to be devoid of any birds, until I found a diver behind the rock islands. It was constantly diving and immediately appeared very black-and white, but I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, so I spent quite some while before confirming it was a Black-throated Diver. It eventually drifted slowly east towards Poole Place but much further out, until I lost it. Later a diver sp flew west…possibly the same bird?? There wasn’t much else; Gannet – 8E, Great Crested Grebe – 2o/s, Brent Goose – 10 o/s, R/b Merganser – 1W, and Common Scoter – 1E.

Two Stonechats were in the hotspot set-aside, whilst in the distance over 100 Brent Geese were flighting into the Climping arable fields. (OM)

Very quiet offshore with the only bird of note being a Goldeneye on the sea from Climping Beach.

Brent Geese - 15 fields 7w

Red-breasted Merganser - 3 offshore

Med Gull - 11

Ringed Plover - 30

Grey Plover - 7

Oystercatcher - 15 7e

Turnstone - 17

Dartford Warbler - 1

Stonechat - 3

Rock Pipit - 2

Grey Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 9

Meadow Pipit - 5

Skylark - 32

Goldfinch - 45

Reed Bunting - 3

Song Thrush - 3

Goldcrest - 2

Starling - 75

Sparrowhawk - 2

Buzzard - 3

Kestrel - 1

Mute Swan - 5

Sparrowhawk 

Rock Pipit