Weather: SE force 3/4 cloudy
Not as much arriving as yesterday despite the cloud. Three Chiffchaffs and 3 Wheatears were the highlights.
A few dozen Meadow Pipits were passing through the island. Nine Rock Pipits remain here, some colour ringed in our Hilbre scheme.
Of the 52 Brent seen today only one was a juvenile/first winter, (middle bird below) the first recorded here this year. This could be an indication of a poor breeding season, we shall see.
An immature Goosander and a male Common Scoter were the only other wildfowl this morning. There were 4 Little Egrets and 2 Grey Herons, a few waders such as 50 Redshank, 25 Ringed Plover, 30 Curlew, 22 Turnstone and 3 Bar-tailed Godwits. Not so many gulls about today either, 300 Herring, 80 Black-headed, 1 Common, 4 Lesser Black-back and 1 Great Black-back which was on the whaleback.
Ringed: 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Wren.
Photos SRW
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