November 28th
We spent a most enjoyable morning at Reculver beginning at the Towers and then walking along the seawall. At the Towers e saw 600 Cormorants, 120 Common Scoter, 24 Teal, 5 Great Crested Grebes E, 1 male Red-breasted Merganser E, 2 Rock Pipits, 158 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 15 Red-throated Divers E, 1 juvenile Long-tailed Duck on the sea in the shadows below the Towers before flying E, 4 Curlew and 30 Great Black-backed Gulls including one chasing a Song Thrush in off the sea and 2 large auks E.
On our walk along the seawall we recorded  2 Avocets E, only the second record of the year, 1 Redshank, 1 Kingfisher, 1 immature Shag, 42 Ringed Plovers, 2 Turnstone, 81 Mallard, 90 Wigeon, 1 Stonechat, 5 Oystercatchers, 80 Carrion Crows, 40 Lapwings, 1 juvenile Glaucous Gull (194th) , a typical pale biscuit coloured individual flying in off the sea at the Green Wall and then along the back of the Oyster Farm before flying back out to sea at the Towers, 2 Grey Plovers, 1 Snipe and 20 Mute Swan,

Juvenile Long-tailed Duck