December 4th

With a cold easterly wind blowing we walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and back. Birds we saw included 393 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 2 Velvet Scoter, a male and female flying E and then back W, 88 Mallard, 58 Cormorants, 2 Turnstone, 13 Great Black-backed Gulls, 6 Coot, 2 Shelduck, 12 Redshank, 1 Goldfinch, 1 Kestrel, 1 Great Northern Diver sitting on the sea close inshore, 2 Teal, 22 Carrion Crows and 1 Corn Bunting.