A great day looking at the sea, two sessions (0900-1000hrs) and (1030-1140hrs) produced a site record for a winter movement of teal with 1078 passing west. Other species were also part of the westerly movement but in much smaller numbers; 122 pink-footed geese (in from north-west), five shelduck, 127 wigeon, three mallard, a gadwall, 14 shoveler, 213 lapwing, bonxie and nine little gull (six east, three west). Later two drake goosander flew south-west high over Ragged Marsh.
Also off shore 1700 common scoter, six long-tailed duck, six red-breasted merganser, five red-throated diver and on the beach two greenshank. The shorelarks continued to please the year listers.
In the pines a chiffchaff was still present.
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