November 23rd

On an increasingly unpleasant morning with a strong SW wind and heavy rain we spent two hours seawatching at Minnis Bay. We counted 2 Sandwich Terns, 11 Red-throated Divers, 2 Great Northern Divers, 4 Great Crested Grebes, 3 Little Egrets, 16 Gannets, 90 Sanderling, 76 Oystercatcher, 55 Turnstone, 126 Dunlin, 38 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 23 Curlew, 57 Grey Plovers, 17 Redshank, 15 Chaffinches flying W, 5 Starlings flying in off the sea and 4 Common Scoter.