Fri 29th Dec 23

A walk to French Point before the rain was a pleasure after being indoors for a few days and eating far too much.

The 4 White-fronted Geese were on the marsh to the right of the hide with a single Brent Goose and the c300 Brent were still at the back of the golf course even though quite a few golfers were on the reopened course. 6 Purple Sands were on the rocks south of French Point.

Around the scrape: 7 Greylag, c300 Teal, 28 Wigeon, 5 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, c100 Lapwing, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Buzzard.

Reports from today:

Brian Combes

08:58 4 White-front still on scrape

18:01 Walk from Frinton to Haven and back this morning included: 4 Russian white-fronted geese, 550+ brent (on golf course, none first thing, with flock building up through early morning, birds arriving from NW), 750+ black headed gulls (on golf course first thing), 18 shoveler, 1 rock pipit, 1 Cetti’s (singing), 1 goldcrest, 90+ lapwing, 1 peregrine, 1 buzzard, 4 stonechat (2 pairs), 220+ teal, 1 turnstone, 115+ wigeon, 2 reed bunting, 4 song thrush (2 singing),