Sunday, 31 December 2023

Sunday 31st December

 A 1.25 hour seawatch saw 49 Kittiwake, 35 Gannet, two Fulmar and two Common Scoter fly SW first thing with six Eider and four Great Northern Diver close inshore.

Several hundred Black-tailed Godwit were in the saltmarsh briefly during the morning, the first downriver influx this year. Also in the estuary 278 Wigeon, 156 Grey Plover, 152 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 136 Bar-tailed Godwit, 135 Knot, eight Red-breasted Merganser, four Greenshank and a fifth Great Northern Diver.

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