21st September

Still lovely conditions with the merest breath of a NW wind but a bit more cloud than yesterday; there were a few more birds in the nets highlighted by a smart 1^st winter Barred Warbler along with 2 Reed Buntings and 10 Blue Tits.   The sea was quiet but there was a good overhead passage through the morning of 330+ Siskins, 13 Grey Wagtails, 6 Tree Pipits, a Lapland Bunting, 5 Reed Buntings, 5 Goldfinches and the odd Skylark, Redpoll, Yellowhammer and Yellow Wagtail while a big female Goshawk flew across the fields.

                The bushes and plantations were pretty quiet but there were some nice birds around including a Black Woodpecker calling in Lebeltet, a Red-throated Pipit in Seviksmarka and another Goshawk in Lebeltet Nord while other birds of note were another 290+ Siskins swirling round Lebeltet, 2 Lapland Buntings at the Radiomastene, 9 Crossbills, a Redstart, 11 Goldfinches and a couple of flyover Grey Plovers before it clouded over, the wind switched to the east and started raining by the evening.

 

Barred Warbler

This suspicious looking Golden Plover only set alarm bells ringing when I looked at the photographs later; it looks very small and slim with short primary projection and long tertials - more opinions are needed but its probably just a grey Goldie!

There was a Goshawk in the plantation where the Eagle Owl was yesterday who was probably responsible for this sad looking pile of Sparrowhawk feathers!