As the coast looked very windy and drizzly, I wandered inland to Grafham Water which was very windy and sunny where a walk along the dam and round the lagoons failed to find any lost seabirds but did produce a Hobby heading high east, a monster first-winter female Peregrine playing with the Black-headed Gulls and knocking Little Egrets into the water (I don’t think she was seriously hunting through!), a Green Sandpiper, an adult Yellow-legged Gull feeding on the dam, a Great White Egret (a Grafham tick!), a Red Kite, 2 Kingfishers, 5 Swallows, 4 House Martins and some good wildfowl counts in Gaynes Creek including 35 Shoveler, 79 Gadwall, 240 Tufted Ducks, 70 Great-crested Grebes and 290 Coots.
An afternoon seawatch back at Landguard then produced 207 Brent Geese, 17 Wigeon, 12 Teal, 51 Common Scoter, 3 Golden Plover, 11 Dunlin, an Arctic Skua, 2 Mediterranean Gulls, a Common Tern, 3 Sandwich Terns, 3 Red-throated Divers and 3 Gannets.
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