Highlights this morning 05.45-10.00 were: 56 Whimbrel, 3 Bar-tailed Godwits, 244 Common Scoter, 3 Velvet Scoter, 9 Arctic Skua, 12 Great Skua, 55 Sandwich Tern, 1 BLACK TERN, 4 Arctic Tern, 95 Common Tern, 16 Little Tern, 81 Little Gull, 9 Red-breasted Mergansers, 5 Dunlin, 2 Red-throated Divers, 1 Black-throated Diver, 63 Brent Geese, 4 Shoveler and 3 Mediterranean Gulls.
Most birds were distant, but the Terns were close with the undoubted highlight being the Black Tern with a small group of Common Terns. There were 4 Sussex yearticks and 3 UK yearticks bringing the former total to 174 and the latter total to 186.
