November 21st

With a fresh NW wind blowing Matt arrived at Reculver for a seawatch at 0700 and remained there until 1530. Anne and I joined him for three hours this morning and one and a half hours this afternoon. Matt's final totals were 3 Redwings, 125 Gannets W and a feeding flock of 100 off Minnis Bay, 248 Common Scoter mainly in a flock sitting on the sea, 222 Kittiwakes (211W and 11 E), 376 Dark -bellied Brent Geese, 410 Cormorants, 41 Little Gulls W, 34 Red-throated Divers and 5 Great Northern Divers (2 single birds flying high E over the Oyster Farm and 3 on the sea that flew east). Other birds included 6 Red-breasted Mergansers W (1 male and 5 red-heads), 2 Curlews, 81 Razorbills mainly W, 5 Great Crested Grebes, 12 Sandwich Terns W, 1 Eider E, 80+large auks, 15 Mediterranean Gulls E, 1 Little Egret, 4 Shelduck W, 1 Black-throated Diver E (192nd), 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls W, 6 Pintail W, 1 Teal W, 99 Starlings W, 1 Sooty Shearwater E at 1110 (193rd), 1 female/immature Goldeneye W, 1 male Goosander W, 3 Skylarks W, 23 Lapwings W, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Great Skuas (1W and 3E) and 2 Wigeon W.