Decided on another stupid-o-clock start today, in fact I got there before sun up and was greeted with a sharp frost.

First bird seen was a barn owl. There were hundreds of ringed plover and dunlins early on, before they moved out after the tide receded. Nothing overly extra-ordinary was recorded on my way to notching up 75 species, but plenty of birds around. My bird of the day was a black-necked grebe at the Witham and Welland mouths on the full tide, before drifting slowly north. A couple of gannets and sandwich terns went north. I have now had all five British grebes here in the last couple of years. There is quite often a decent bird or two sheltering in this area. A pair of eiders were close in.