Offshore southbound 14 Brent, 6 Common Gull, 6 Kitts, 2 Shelduck, Shoveler & only the third Goldeneye record this year with northbound 5 Common Scoter & 5 Red-throated Diver. No Cormorants went out but 2,080 came in from the north well out to feed around the sandbars. Rock Pipit was on the point and a Turnstone flew over the reserve.
Ringing: 1 Sparrowhawk.
Blackbird ringed Greifswalder Oie, Ostorpommern, Mecklenberg-vorpormern, Germany 16th March 2017 retrapped 879 km away at Landguard 29th November 2020. The locality is an uninhabited island in the Baltic part of the former GDR. Presumably this is a bird originating from further east ringed on spring passage then caught here in late autumn.
34 Kitts following a wind turbine boat coming in plus 25 south is easily the highest count of the winter so far. Also southbound 74 Great Black-backed Gull, 11 Brent, 3 Red-throated Diver, 3 Velvet Scoter, Gannet & Wigeon with northbound 11 Red-throats, 9 Common Scoter & 2 Brent. 1,560 Cormorant came in from the north a long way out heading for the feeding grounds with a mere 3 heading out to sea from inland over here. On the reserve a single Turnstone plus a flock of 60 Starling over towards the View Point car park notable for recent times.
Southbound 107 Brent, 13 Common Gull, 7 Wigeon, 1 Common Scoter & 1 Guillemot with northbound 18 Brent, 14 Red-throated Diver & 2 Teal. 16 Kitts were feeding offshore.
14 Linnet south is getting late in the season to be still migrating with no other migrants noted. Offshore southbound 13 Brent, 9 Common Scoter, 3 Wigeon, 2 Oyk & Red-throated Diver with northbound 6 Red-throats.
A Great-northern Diver flew north just offshore, female Eider is still in the river & a return visit by a Great Spotted Woodpecker are this mornings notable sightings. Down to just 91 Cormorants, next to none offshore movements & a walk around the reserve basically confirmed that there is nothing of even marginal note out there.