Weather: ESE force 3 SE 1 by noon
Another good day with plenty of variety. Thrushes were prominent again with 18 Redwings, 2 Fieldfare, 5 Song Thrushes and 15 Blackbirds. Other passage included over 40 Meadow Pipits, 2 Pied Wagtails, 5 Skylarks, several Robins and a good selection of finches featuring 8 Chaffinch, 9 Goldfinch, 20 Linnets and 2 Greenfinch.
A Merlin as usual was an early visitor.
Kestrel and this Peregrine and were also here,
which sent up some Brents and Oystercatchers.
Three Jackdaws flew by while wildfowl logged were 300 Brent plus a dark-bellied bird, 600 Scoter, 20 Shelduck in scattered records, 2 Wigeon, 3 Teal, a female type Goosander in the gutter below the obs and 4 of our regular Eiders. Sea watching produced 23 Gannets, 6 Red-throated Divers, 6 Great Crested Grebes, 9 Guillemot, 2 Razorbills and a Shag. A Great White Egret flew in from Wales before turning south and missing the island, records of these are now becoming almost a regular occurrance.
There were still only 3 Purple Sandpipers in view with other waders that included 105 Curlew, 200 Knot, 145 Redshank, 50 Dunlin, 50 Sanderling, 60 Turnstone, 45 Bar-tailed Godwit. Keeping the feeding waders company were 3 Little Egrets and 2 Grey Heron.
Ringed: 1 Song Thrush, 2 Blackbirds
Photos SRW
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