The five Velvet Scoter remained offshore with 26 Common Scoter, 11 Great Crested Grebe, nine Red-throated and three Great Northern Diver.
Counts over the high tide included 950 Dunlin, 115 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 76 Grey and 35 Ringed Plover, 41 Knot, 29 Sanderling, an Avocet and a Red-breasted Merganser.
Curlew - Dean Hall 
Avocet - Dean Hall
Elsewhere eight Chiffchaff, six Goldcrest and a Firecrest were attracting the attention of a Sparrowhawk in Dead Dolphin Wood, where a Buzzard was scanning Greenland Lake. Two drake Shoveler were on the Main Pond with 14 Teal and a Kingfisher.
Sparrowhawk - Lee Collins 
Buzzard - Dean Hall
Other Wildlife: After a clear frosty start, very little insect activity but a couple of bugs were unearthed, the leafhopper Euscelis lineolatus and a Sand Sedge planthopper Kelisia sabulicola.
Euscelis lineolatus - Alan Keatley
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| Kelisia sabulicola - Alan Keatley |
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| Candlesnuff Xylaria hypoxylon - Lee Collins |
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