Offshore 144 Kittiwake flew SW in 30 minutes first light, with 49 roosting Great Crested Grebe, four Great Northern and two Red-throated Diver.
A pair of Goldeneye were in Shutterton Creek, with the Avocet, a Jack Snipe and the year's first Water Pipit in the saltmarsh (no access). Also in the estuary 348 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 102 Teal, 75 Shelduck, 61 Turnstone, 15 Wigeon, a winter high 15 Red-breasted Merganser, 14 Ringed Plover, 13 Sanderling and an adult Mediterranean Gull, with the nine Eider also present.
Elsewhere four Shoveler were on Main Pond, single Goldcrest and Chiffchaff in the bushes and a lone Siskin overhead.
Year list addition:
99. Water Pipit
Other Wildlife: The first Grey Seal of the year was in the estuary, the removal of their favoured haul out barge has reduced records at this end of the estuary.
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