November 2nd

This morning began drizzly but cleared at about 0900. Matt walked from Reculver to Coldharbour along the seawall where we met him before we all returned to seawatch from the Towers. We had an excellent morning seeing a good range of species and counted 3 Goldcrests, 5 Rock Pipits, 4 Stonechats, 7 Little Egrets, 41 Gannets E, 36 Wigeon W, 12 Corn Buntings, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Grey Herons, 5 Curlew, 1,546 Dark-bellied Brent Geese W, 1 Shelduck W, 1 Brambling in off, 200 Knot flying high W, 2 Yellowhammers, 60 Dunlin, 2 Gadwall and 1 Spotted Redshank in the Oyster Farm and then flying S (195th). We also saw, 600 Starlings, 1 Peregrine high over the sea and diving at a Short-eared Owl, 5 Teal, 31 Common Scoter, 18 Little Gulls high in off, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Siskins, 1 Kittiwake E, 1 Red-breasted Merganser W, 1 Pink-footed Goose E (196th), 9 Skylarks in off, 2 Great Skuas E, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1 Red-throated Diver and 1 Greenfinch.