Tuesday 2nd January

A Pomarine Skua headed south and the Long-tailed Duck was still offshore this morning with 450 Gannet, 84 Great-crested Grebe and seven Red-throated Diver. Elsewhere a Cirl Bunting was behind the hide and from the hide a flock of 230 Black-tailed Godwit had been displaced from upriver and counts included 150 Grey Plover and 118 Knot.