March 20th
With a chilly, fresh, ENE wind blowing Matt spent from 0645 to 0850 at the Towers and we spent from 0800 to 0850 there. When he arrived at Reculver the first bird he recorded was a singing Firecrest in the bushes. From the Towers he counted the following birds flying E: 53 Red-throated Divers, 1 Razorbill (124th), 15 Gannets off shore, 3 Common Scoter W and 7E, 3 Kittiwakes, 6 large auks, 17 Great Black-backed Gulls, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 4 Shelduck, 7 Great Crested Grebes, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 20 Dunlin, 1 Purple Sandpiper on rocks below the Towers, 1 second winter Yellow-legged Gull (125th), 2 Curlew, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull W and  1 Great Skua (126th).
After this we walked inland at Reculver and recorded 4 Common Buzzards, 9 Chaffinches, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 3 Great Crested Grebes, 1 Teal, 2 Mallard, 4 Goldfinches, 10 Cormorants, 2 Chiffchaffs and another singing Firecrest.