Fri 22nd Dec 23

Very windy on the front this morning, still 4 White-fronted Geese with the Greylags behind the scrape and 20+ Canada Geese on the approach road marsh. A single Grey Heron had the scrape pretty much to himself, a Peregrine was up on the arable and a Marsh Harrier and a Kestrel flew over the marsh. DC/RJ/MR

Reports from today:

Brian Combes

08:32 White-fronts still north of hide.

10:33 Pale-bellied Brent on golf course with 450+ Brents.

17:50 Walk from Frinton to Haven and back this morning: 1 Pale-bellied Brent (lovely bird but difficult to see in dense flock of Brents), 4 Russian White-fronted Geese, 5 Purple Sandpiper (mobile group on sea defences, single bird first thing Frinton end may be a sixth), 450+ Brent (mobile between fields and golf course), 1 Green Woodpecker, 550+ Black-headed Gulls (on golf course before sunrise), 14+ Shoveler, 1 Rock Pipit, 9 Blackbird, 4 Cetti’s (singing), 1 Goldcrest, 4 Curlew (south), 4 Mipit, 95+ Lapwing, 4 Fieldfare (group west over carpark), 1 Marsh Harrier, 250+ Starling (feeding on golf course).

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