Started off with a quick look at Pett Pools Pete Rouse, Cliff Dean, and the usual birds - a couple of Marsh Harriers, loads of Canada and Greylag Geese and still no Whitefronts. A Woodcock came in off the sea landed in the reeds for a couple of minutes then headed off inland.
Over to Walland Marsh to look for the reported Waxwings and as usual no sign. At Midley a flock of 30 Tree Sparrows was nice.
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| Tree Sparrows |
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| House Sparrow |
Also several House Sparrows and Chaffinches,. while watching three other birders stopped to see what I was looking at, all hoping for Waxwings.
Further down the road 38 Bewicks were amoung the Mute Swans
From here onto Dungeness, from the causeway a Great White Egret was on New Diggings also the juvenile Blak-throated Diver which gave me another year tick.
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| Black-throated Diver |
At the fishing boats the 3rd winter Glaucous Gull was easily found this time, now looking even paler hope he stays till next winter.
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Glaucous Gull 3rd winter
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On the sea loads of Guillemots and at least one Razorbill, Great Crested Grebes, two distant Red-throated Divers
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| Red-throated Diver |
Back along Walland Marsh still hundreds of winter Thrushes, mainly Fieldfares and still no Waxwings
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| Fieldfare |
A decision to go to Eastbourne to look for the Waxwings there was aborted in the afternoon due to heavy traffic, so settled with a dog walk along the prom at Bexhill, only birds of interest were the Pied Wagtails against the sun set
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