November 15th

With a very fresh NE wind blowing in showers, Matt spent from 0650 to 1450 at the Towers seawatching and was joined by Chris Tedder for most of the time. The majority of the birds he recorded were moving west. He counted 399 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 27 Shelduck, 182 Wigeon, 67 Gannets, 17 Kittiwakes, 42 Teal, 1 Eider, 44 Red-throated Divers, 5 Purple Sandpipers, 1 Kestrel, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, 380 Cormorants, 76 Common Gulls, 90 Black-headed Gulls, 4 Great White Egrets flying west at 0745, 4 Pintail, 4 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Curlews, 6 Grey Plovers, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Razorbills, 42 Lapwings, 1 Peregrine, 1 Snipe, 12 Dunlin, 12 Common Scoter, 10 Great Skuas (6 west and 4 east), 2 Yellow-legged Gulls flying E (3rd winter and 2nd winter), 1 Pomarine Skua, 2 Velvet Scoter (196th) and 1 Shag east.