The easterly wind had
dropped off to more manageable levels but that inevitably led to thick fog
which was pretty thick in the morning, thinned out through the afternoon and
came back in very thickly in the early evening; it was a good day’s birding
though with a decent arrival of migrants, I opened some nets first thing and
birds around Holland and the Obs included 4 Ring Ouzels (with 3 trapped
together in T4), a noticeable influx of at least 11 Dunnocks, 7 Mistle
Thrushes, 2 Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, 30 Robins, 6 Song Thrushes, 5 Chaffinches
and 2 Bramblings.
I then walked round the Brides census route but it
was quiet compared to Holland with my first Bonxie of
the year, a single Dunnock, 2 Wheatears, another Chiffchaff, a Goldcrest, 40+
Fieldfares, 60+ Blackbirds, 2 Chaffinches, 8 Reed Buntings, a Grey Plover and
the Kumlien’s Gull still on the beach at Brides. A few new birds later in the day around the
Obs included the first 2 Tree Pipits of the year (the earliest
island record by four days!), a couple more Ring Ouzels and my first Willow Warbler of the year by T5 with three Chiffchaffs.
Ring Ouzel
Brambling
Blackcap
A particularly bright Chiffchaff
Great Black-backed Gull with a Lumpsucker
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