Monday 3 August 2015

3rd August


Yet again, a great flat calm start to the day with the nets having a bit more life in them than of late as in amongst the 40 new birds were single Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler and Pied Flycatcher along with 20 Willow Warblers; there were a few other birds around as well including a Green Woodpecker, 11 Crossbills overhead, the first Sparrowhawk of the autumn over the lighthouse and the adult male Marsh Harrier and Peregrine cruising around.

                The morning was also notable for good numbers of waders passing through Vågsvollvåien with many flocks dropping in and heading off again; conservative totals included 17 Ruff, 2 Knot, 8 Greenshank, 7 Common Sandpipers, 7 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 4 Dunlin and the highlights of a juvenile Little Stint and a flyover Spotted Redshank.

                With all these waders through the morning the coast was disappointingly quiet in the rapidly increasing easterly wind at lunchtime with only a small concentration of Tringa’s in Verevågen of note  while birds inland included a Wryneck, a Tree Pipits a few scattered Red-backed Shrikes and a Kestrel over the lighthouse.
 
Sedge Warbler
 
This Garden Warbler has obviously found and early crop of berries somewhere (or been eating Willow Warblers!)

Scruffy moulting juvenile Whinchat
 

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