Sorry for late posting.

There was a huge movement of winter thrushes today at Steart - some 3,000+ Fieldfares and 700+ Redwings in various sized flocks throughout the morning while I was out between 07.00 and 10.00 and it was continuing into early afternoon on occasions I looked out the window.  Also Woodpigeons 50+, and uncounnted finches too high to identify.  Presumably the sudden onset of cold weather.  What was odd was that all birds were flying north.

Also large numbers of Golden Plover (c. 3,000) and Lapwing (c. 2,500) around early morning.  A female Marsh Harrier harassed a male Peregrine into flight on the saltmarsh.  Also a Merlin hunting over the river.  123 Oystercatchers and 6 Bar-tailed Godwits on the Point.  Numbers of Dunlin and Wigeon sharply down but a couple of thousand of the former seen later flying from the river to the mudflats so presumably had been hunkered down in the lee of the riverbank out of the cutting NNE wind.