Fri 18th Dec 20

A stop at the lay-by on the way across the marshes gave a good mixture of geese with 26 Whitefronts in with c170 Brent Geese and the large flock of Greylags. The Greylags soon moved to the marsh below the raised platform and were followed a few minutes later by the 26 Whitefronts. A quick move to view the marsh from the pillbox showed a second flock of 33 Whitefronts on the marsh to the right of the hide. MR

6 Purple Sandpipers and 2 Turnstone were along the front and another group of Brent were sitting on the sea offshore 

From the hide: 6 Mute Swans, c100 Teal, 78 Wigeon, 12 Shelduck, 9 Shoveler, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Curlew, 1 Snipe, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Peregrine (up on the arable), 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel. 

The Brent from offshore dropped into the scrape mid morning and a further group from behind the golf course dropped into the arable in front of the hide, c400 in total. JH/DC/MR.