Thursday 5 November 2015

5th November


Similar conditions to yesterday apart from the easterly wind had picked up to at least force 6; I managed to get a couple of nets open which produced 4 Blackcaps and a Redwing while the sea was unremarkable with small numbers of Red-throated Divers, Razorbills, Kittiwakes and Little Auks, a few Ducks and a group of 4 Sparrowhawks which came in together, low over the water.

                After a couple of hours of rain at lunchtime the coast was quiet but what was there was good quality with a juvenile Iceland Gull in Verevågen (seen from Karveneset over by the pier but when I got round there it had disappeared!), a single Shorelark which flew south over Sevika, 4 Short-eared Owls out on Steinodden, 3 Snow Buntings on Skarvodden, 3 Greenland Wheatears by the lighthouse, 2 Purple Sandpipers and a Peregrine.
 



Short-eared Owls doing some good fly-bys




Iceland Gull - only the second I've seen here
 

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