2,238 Cormorants went out fishing with the vast majority from 0711 hrs to 0718 hrs. A Lapwing on the reserve is todays migrant on a morning with a light covering of snow and cold wintry showers all morning. Despite promising looking conditions starring offshore for a couple of hours produced just southbound 5 Shelduck & northbound 2 Shelduck plus 25 Kitts following shipping. Exceptionally low tides at the moment with a brief sortie onto a very cold exposed jetty exhibiting several species of seaweed that normally remain covered by the sea and a couple of Brittle Star (probably Common Brittle Star Ophiura fragilis, but with a couple of thousand Brittle Star species worldwide then please correct us if you know different).