November 9th

On a glorious late autumn morning Anne and I walked from Reculver to Coldharbour. Birds we saw included 7 Great Crested Grebes, 211 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 29 Cormorants, 3 Great Black-backed Gulls, 18 Redshank, 14 Mallard, 9 Turnstone, 30 Greylag Geese, 26 White-fronted Geese, 34 Carrion Crows, 5 Cetti's Warblers, 19 Oystercatchers, 1 Wigeon, 1 male Red-breasted Merganser fishing offshore, 6 Skylarks, 1 Shelduck, 1 Tree Sparrow, 2 Yellowhammer, Peregrine, 165 Fieldfare, 240 Stock Doves, 1 Little Egret, 3 Reed Buntings, 8 Tundra Bean Geese, 13 Meadow Pipits, 3 Sanderling, 6 Stonechats, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Common Scoter, 65 Ringed Plover roosting on ther beach, 1 Corn Bunting and 9 Robins.