November 29th
On a beautiful frosty morning we began at the Towers and then drove to Chamber's Wall and walked back to Reculver. Birds we saw included 128 Common Scoter, 1 Teal, 6 Red-throated Divers, 3 Great Crested Grebes, 500 Cormorants, 4 Shelduck, 2 Common Buzzards, 2 Kestrels, 13 Golden Plovers, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Fieldfares, 20 Blackbirds, 10 Redwings, 52 Corn Buntings, 6 Tree Sparrows, 38 Chaffinches, 60 Reed Buntings 2 Yellowhammers, 1 Marsh Harrier, 8 Grey Partridges, 2 Peregrines, 6 Lapland Buntings in the maize fields south of Coldharbour lagoon, 2 Water Rails, 275 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 140 Carrion Crows, 1 Snipe, 1 Little Egret, 30 Skylarks, 38 Oystercatchers, 1 Redshank, 1 Rock Pipit, 27 Ringed Plovers, 3 Grey Plovers, 2 Turnstone, 1 Long-tailed Duck E, much paler than yesterday's birds and 1 Stonechat.