With the pools mostly frozen, the river and foreshore was packed with birds - a good mix of the usual 22 Brent Geese, Oystercatchers, Redshank, Curlew, Ringed Plovers, a few Dunlin, 5 Turnstone, a few Golden Plover, one Grey Plover, Ringed Plovers, about 30 Wigeon, 7 Goldeneye, 2 Shovelers, 8 Dabchicks, sundry gulls including 7 Greater Black Backs, a Kingfisher and about 95 Teal - the latter being a good number. Out on the sea were 3 Great Crested Grebes and a rather distant large brown duck which looked a bit like a female Eider but was probably only some kind of cross-bred Mallard. Two very tame and small-lookings buntings got the pulse racing but on reflection I am sure they were only Reed Buntings!
Rosemary
