Mild and settled conditions saw little change on the birding front, with totals of 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrests and singles of Sparrowhawk, Song Thrush and Reed Bunting logged around the Bill, with 4 Purple Sandpipers still in attendance below the Obelisk. More attention looking out to sea was rewarded with 5 Red-throated Divers, 2 Common Scoter and a Black-throated Diver amongst the regular feeding flock of gulls that included over 500 Kittiwakes. Elsewhere in the harbour most of the current winterers were accounted for, with 6 Black-necked Grebes, 2 Black-throated Divers and singles of Slavonian Grebe, Great Northern Diver and Goosander.
At least the local Herring Gull is continuing to make the most of this year's harvest of apples now most of the lingering migrants have departed © Martin King:
