Wednesday 23 September 2015

23rd September


A really good looking day with a light easterly breeze and plenty of cloud cover (which gave way to light rain for a short while) given more promise by a calling Yellow-browed Warbler at the lighthouse early morning.   There were a few bits on the sea (until the rain came) including a Black-throated Diver, 21 Red-throated Divers, 59 Cormorants, 8 Velvet Scoter, 8 Red-breasted Merganser, a Common Tern and a Black Guillemot while 9 Sparrowhawks and 3 Kestrels also went south.

                The area then had a few signs of a typical autumn day with the first few Redwings along with general increases in Goldcrests and Song Thrushes but there was actually little else as birds included a Hobby hunting low across the fields just beyond Lebeltet Nord, 2 Goshawks, a calling Black Woodpecker, 4 Redstarts, 3 Tree Pipits and a few more Sparrowhawks and Kestrels.
 

Just a couple of records shots of the Hobby as it zoomed about at a million miles an hour!
 

No comments:

Post a Comment