December 11th
On another foul morning with a freezing easterly gale and heavy wintry rain we spent 80 minutes at the Towers in what shelter we could find but did not see at great deal. All birds were flying E into the wind and we counted 550 Cormorants, 1 Common Scoter, 87 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 159 Oystercatchers, 6 Red-throated Divers, 4 Kittiwakes, 1 Gannet, 1 Great Skua and 1 Great Crested Grebe.