The five Velvet Scoter were still offshore, with four often separate and the fifth with a raft of 18 Common Scoter, also on the sea nine Great Crested Grebe, five Red-throated Diver and a female Goldeneye, the latter the first for the winter and just the third record of the year.
Counts from the estuary included 51 Grey Plover, 41 Knot and 18 Sanderling with four Teal, the pair of Shoveler and a Snipe at the Main Pond. Elsewhere a Kingfisher was hovering over rockpools at Langstone Rock, a Chiffchaff was with 10 Long-tailed Tit on Warren Point, with at least seven elsewhere and two Firecrest in Dead Dolphin Wood.



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