Thursday 23 April 2015

22nd April


A surprisingly calm start to the day saw a few things moving north at sea including 116 Red-throated Divers, a Great-northern Diver, 5 Tufted Ducks, 14 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Goosanders and another good total of 743 Common Gulls while there was a constant trickle of Linnets, Redpolls and Siskins also going north along with 4 Goldfinches and a few White Wagtails.

                By mid-morning the wind remembered that the forecast had said it was supposed to be twice as strong and it rapidly picked up and there was limited interest through the rest of the day with the exception of the first 4 Black-tailed Godwits dropped into Gunnarsmyra – beautiful summer plumaged islandica birds.   I then drove out to a secret location to spend the night in a tent up in the hills and went to sleep just after dark with a few grunts and clicks of my target species out in the trees as they got into position for tomorrow mornings action.

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