Sat 13th Feb 21

Reports from today:

Paul Brayshaw

10:48 Frinton - seawall - golf course footpath- farm loop dog walk/ ice skate. Increasing open water in the ditches with 10 Snipe and a Woodcock seen in brief flights along the borrowdykes - no doubt many more present.  Fieldfare, 2 Blackbird and 4 Starling feeding on the wind blasted golf course, at least 250 Linnets on fields behind marsh back hedge, pumpkin patch still holding good numbers of finches but all keep very low - at least 15 Chaffinch and 50 Linnet, with Song Thrush by pond, fields by paddocks 85 Skylark, 4 Redwing and 2 Lapwing.

Matt Lonsdale

12:04 Few hours this morning- 

3+ Woodcock and 14+ Snipe the highlights. Little Grebe (over the road) and 14 Curlew only other birds of note. Loads of common gulls again, with 100s of others resting on ice with 2 LBB gulls and few GBB's.

Pete Loud

14:05 Bitterly cold out this morning in the fresh east wind, not too bad in the sheltered spots. Everwhere frozen underfoot, nothing on the Scrape, frozen solid. 4 Woodcock,1 under car park bushes with the rest out of ditches at back of Golf Course, 4 Snipe, 1 Golden Plover on Golf Course, 7 Curlew over. 1 Purple Sand flew past sluice. 1 Redwing in car park, quite a few Blackbirds about and a couple of Song Thrush. Drake Gadwall with a few Mallard on the unfrozen settling ponds in the sewage farm.