November 18th

We spent two and a half hours at a drizzly and windy Minnis Bay this morning and counted 294 Gannets flying W, 16 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Little Egret, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 13 Common Scoter, 7 Teal, 4 Razorbills, 4 Curlew, 21 Little Gulls flying W, 17 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Red-throated Divers, 2 Lapwings flying W, 5 Sandwich Terns, 1 Great Skua flying W (191st), 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Goldcrest, 30 Great Black-backed Gulls, 4 Shoveler and 2 Snipe flying in off the sea.