16th January

A Long-eared Owl was flushed from Holland Gardens during the morning, with the rest of the day involving repairs to winter damaged stone dykes. Casual sightings however produced both Iceland and Glaucous Gulls,and 10 Twite and 3 Skylark were in the Obs crop fields and 61 European White-fronted Geese near Hooking was close to the record count of 65 set in 2011.