Weather: SE force 3 and later in the morning SSE with no discernable force
A very good day with 7 Chiffchaffs and 4 Goldcrests, a passage of Meadow Pipits, and 14 Skylarks, with 1 landing on the island.
... also a Chaffinch (scarce lately), 4 Goldfinches, 4 Wheatears and 10 Robins. A Jackdaw visited overhead.
......and 2 Ravens landed near Little Eye.
Lots of wildfowl were about too, 93 Brent included a dark-bellied bird,
Flocks containing 139 Wigeon and 21 Pintail arrived. (Mixed flock below)
also 3 Wigeon and a Shoveler (scarce here).
Many of the duck were on the tide edge south of Middle. Others here were 15 Shelduck, and 6 Goosander. On the sea were 45 Razorbills, 34 Red-throated Divers, 7 Great Crested Grebes and 18 Guillemots. Waders featured 650 Black-tailed Godwits flocking south west of the islands, 175 Curlew, 126 Redshank, 25 Ringed Plover, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits and a Sanderling. There were 13 Little Egrets and 3 Grey Heron. A Peregrine sat on Tanskey rocks and the Kestrel of course was still here.
Ringed: 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Robins. One of the 4 Goldcrests present wore a British ring from elsewhere.
Later enquiries proved that the Goldcrest was ringed at Bagiilt (North wales)
The Slavonian Grebe with many admirers continued to inhabit the marine lake.
Photots AS, SRW
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