Angle

The wind was howling in at Kilpaison this morning and with no birds visible from the shelter of the car I went round to Angle Harbour where it was a fair bit calmer. On the shingle spit there were 12 Shelduck and 3 Brents as well as a few Herring Gulls, 11 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone and 2 Curlew. The small waders were really getting buffeted by the wind. Also around the harbour  7 Redshank and 2 Little Egrets.
From the path round to the Lodge there were 11 Great Crested Grebes, 26 Wigeon and a good count of 28 Shoveller.
At Freshwater West it was white water for a long way out. A lone Grey Plover flew past over the surf followed by a Great Northern Diver.