January 3rd

On an increasingly breezy morning we walked from Reculver to Coldharbour and back. Birds we saw included 1 Gannet diving and catching fish only 100 metres off the Towers, 650 Dark-bellied Brent, 1 adult Pale-bellied Brent Goose, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Redshank, 11 Turnstone, 5 Meadow Pipits, 33 Mallard, 13 Goldfinches, 1 Little Egret, 2 Oystercatchers, 2 Shoveler, 1 White-fronted Goose in off the sea at the Oyster Farm (101st), 2 Stonechats and 2 Ravens on the Towers before flying W.

I spent an hour at a damp and drizzly Minnis Bay this afternoon but only saw 2 Red-throated Divers, 13 Grey Plovers, 20 Dunlin, 2 Curlew, 5 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 11 Oystercatchers, 1 Sandwich Tern E, 2 Great Crested Grebes and 16 Turnstone.