After a rough day on the 3rd,
it was again a stunning, sunny day with a light wind swinging around the NW / W
direction; walked up the west coast with the highlights being a first-year Glaucous Gull which flew south past Torness and the first Jackdaw of the year over Westness. Other birds included 5 Woodcock, 5 Mistle
Thrush, a Rook, 5 Chaffinches, a little influx of Thrushes especially 25+ Song
Thrushes, 6 Black-tailed Godwits on Gretchen and a Woodpigeon.
The first three Sandwich Terns of the year were on
Gretchen in the afternoon before I opened the nets at Holland in the evening
which produced nearly 50 new birds with the first Siskin of
the year and a Grey Wagtail (only the seventh to be ringed on the island) the
highlights amongst good numbers of Blackbirds, Song Thrushes and Redwings which
came into roost.
Glaucous Gull
Woodpigeon
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