Great Grey Shrike.    The closest I could manage for a record shot just after dawn.


         A Great Grey Shrike was a welcome find at the scrapyards at the end of Ark Road.   It was present around 0800, but could not be located after 0825.    Birds on the fields included 50 Lapwings, 800 Golden Plovers, 7 Mute Swans, one Little Egret and one Common Buzzard.   On the dykes and flashes were 17 Redshanks, one Common Snipe, 8 Mallard, 23 Teal, 3 Whooper Swans and 2 Little Grebes.   A brief look at the dunes produced 30 Blackbirds, one Redwing and one Woodcock.

         Sea passage was all to the north between 0850 and 1000, hence 47 Shelducks, 11 Mallard, 34 Teal, 24 Wigeon, 12 Common Scoters, 3 Goldeneye, 4 Goosanders, 4 Brent Geese, 4 Cormorants, one Shag, 2 Kittiwakes, one Little Auk and 2 Guillemots.    150 Starlings and 8 Skylarks came in from the sea.    Waders onshore were 430 Dunlin, 30 Sanderling, 10 Oystercatchers, 50 Bar-tailed Godwits and 2 Grey Plovers, while gulls included 150 Great Black-backs, 300 Herrings and 800 Common Gulls.