Another very mild day with very strong southerly winds and a temperature of 14 degrees!! The sea was fairly dull during a twenty minute watch producing two red-throated divers, fulmar, 21 herring gull, seven great black-backed gull, kittiwake and an auk spp. all west.
Other more stationary birds included two great crested grebes off shore, the distant scoter and from the hides 250 teal, 160 wigeon, two marsh harrier and a female sparrowhawk.
Thornham Harbour at mid pm saw a gathering of 450 common gull, 210 herring gull, 1 lesser black-backed gull and 41 great black-backed gulls, and out on the sandflats a nice count of 77 shelduck. On the way back to The Firs there were 52 curlew pre-roosting on the North Field, while a barn owl was struggling in the strong winds along the edge of the Hun River.
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