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Friday 1st January 2021


Southbound 61 Black-headed Gull, 60 Common Gull, 32 Wigeon, 15 Teal, 7 Pintail, 3 Shelduck, 2 Curlew & Guillemot with northbound 1 Red-throated Diver plus single Guillemot & Long-tailed Duck that were heading south but pitched in offshore. It's always difficult to know whether the gulls trickling south early morning are actually on the move at this time of the year or are just leaving a roosting site that we suspect is on the sea off Cobbald's Point. 6 Redwing came out of the Holm Oaks headed south-west were probably refugees from frozen conditions inland. A quick jaunt around the site revealed no other signs of anything on the move.