February 23rd
On a bright and breezy morning we walked from Reculver to the Wantsum outflow and saw 780 Dark-bellied Brent Geese including one very pale individual and also a Barnacle Goose. Other birds seen included 34 Mute Swans, 4 Stonechats, 14 Redshank, 3 Ringed Plovers, 32 Dunlin, 41 Oystercatchers, 12 Mallard, 2 Curlew, 1 Grey Plover, 3 Snow Buntings, 16 Sanderling, 1 Little Egret and 1 Little Owl.

Barnacle Goose

Pale Brent Goose

I was notified today that a Song Thrush we ringed at Shuart on 22nd October 2008 had been hunted and killed at Luis Carlos Ferreira Lemos Santos, Monsanto, Alcanena, Portugal on 4th January 2015. This was 1,534 km SSW of where we ringed it. This was a first year "continental" Song Thrush we caught in October on its autumn migration south, a journey it had made seven times before being killed.