Saturday 10 October 2015

10th October


With lighter winds than the forecast had suggested we were able to open all the nets for the busiest morning of the autumn so far as a total of 215 new birds were caught with the bulk made up of 115 Blue Tits and 82 Goldcrests although the obvious highlight was an awesome Short-eared Owl caught in Net Four (an overdue ringing tick!); otherwise the variety was poor with just single Blackcap and Chiffchaff of note among the few other birds.
 
                The area was disappointingly quiet after such as busy morning although the [somewhat frustrating] highlight was an almost certain, flyover PENDULINE TIT which went south over Gunnarsmyra; it called a couple of times and I saw it as a tiny speck overhead but I couldn’t get any more details.   Other highlights included a Great Grey Shrike at Vågsvoll and a Slavonian Grebe and Jack Snipe in Verevågen along with a Redstart, a Tree Pipit, 4 Chiffchaffs, 7+ Wheatears and 125+ Rock Pipits while a steady stream of Meadow Pipits headed south along with 6+ Grey Wagtails and some Siskins.  



Awesome Short-eared Owl (probably find it 'Goshawked' later!)

First decent arrival of Goldcrests today

Rock Pipit

Wren

Slavonian Grebe
 

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