Sun 13th Dec 20

Not on site today but good to see the Whitefronts are still around.

Reports from today:

Simon Cox

11:05 55 Whitefronts Chippings lay-by.

15:11 There were 7 Purple Sandpipers by the sluice earlier & 140 Wigeon on the sea. PL saw a Gt Crested Grebe

John Hall

15:09 A rare Sunday visit to The Haven proved to be more socially enjoyable than bird productive. High tide meant no Purple Sandpipers or Turnstones on the Sluice. In the Hide Slmon & Pat Cox were doing  WeBS count and shortly after we were joined by PL. From the Hide C 50 Teal, 4 Shelduck, 1 Greylag, 6 Mute Swans on the arable and 1 on scrape which joined the 6. About 100 Brent flew over heading for the sea and shortly after around 50 (presumably of the 100) returned. 2 Stonechats were spotted over the grazing marsh and a Buzzard flew along the Back hedge. A distant flock of unidentified geese were observed by PL, which could well have been a flock of White fronts seen earlier by S & P from the Chippings lay-by. Also seen a large distant flock of Corvids.    S & P Cox/PL/JH.