Tuesday, 30 December 1986

St. Abb's Head Reserve, Borders, Scotland, 30/12/1986

Raining heavily and very windy.

Purple Sandpipers [N]
Turnstones, Chaffinches, Eider Ducks, Guillemots, Herring Gull,
Cormorants, Rock Pipit, Goldeneye, Coot, Mallard, Great Black-Backed Gull.

12 species, 1 new species.

Sunday, 14 December 1986

RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, 14/12/1986

Partridge,
Kestrel in a tree preening.
Mistle Thrush, Yellowhammer, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese.

Goldeneyes [N], Little Grebes, Reed Buntings, Coots, Pochards.
Gadwalls [N], Wigeons [N], Cormorants, Dunnock, Chaffinchs, Shelducks, Redshanks.
Grey Plover [N], Tufted Ducks, Ringed Plover.

Red-Breasted Merganser [N] washing, preening and displaying.
Snow Buntings [N] feeding on single.

Masses of waders in flocks of thousands feeding Oystercatchers, Redshanks, Knots [N], etc.
Golden Plovers, Shovelers, Mute Swans, Scaup, Pink-Footed Geese [N].

31 species seen, 8 [N]ew species seen.