A sunny, calm spring-like morning tempted me down to Climping Gap this morning for the first time in weeks. No obvious migrants were noted though there were a few bits and pieces on the sea, the best being 3 Slavonian Grebes fairly close in at Poole Place. Forty Red-breasted Mergansers and 6 Great Crested Grebes were offshore, whilst the high-tide roost at Elmer rocks held 70 Oystercatchers, 180 Sanderling, 75 Turnstone and 15 Ringed Plover. A solitary Brent Goose was feeding in the fields but looked anxious to depart, then a hint of spring when my first butterfly - a Red Admiral - flew right past me on the beach.