A perfect morning, almost
flat calm and overcast so the main focus was the nets where I managed 50 new
birds including the first Icterine
Warbler and 2 Tree Pipits of the autumn and another juvenile Pied
Flycatcher (I also had a mist net extraction tick - a Bedstraw Hawkmoth!). There were plenty of other birds around as
well with the Merlin whizzing around, 60+ Swifts hawking low down, 121 Greylag
Geese heading south and a good selection of waders around Vågsvollvåien
including 28 Golden Plover, a Ruff, 7 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpipers, 2
Whimbrel, 21 Curlew and a Bar-tailed Godwit.
There were more waders along the coast at lunchtime
as totals included 2 Turnstone, 7 more Common Sandpipers, 7 more Green Sandpipers,
5 Greenshank, 13 Redshank, 15 Dunlin and a Sanderling; other birds of note were
4 Teal, 2 Tufted Ducks, a Red-throated Diver south and 90+ Swifts. The only result of persistent but light rain
during most of the afternoon was 31 Lapwings on Vågsvollvåien.
Icterine Warbler
Turnstone
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