With a light easterly
breeze and a bit of cloud cover (would have preferred more!) there were some
birds around making it feel like the first day of autumn! Opened the nets first thing with the
highlight being a fresh, pristine young Common Nightingale –
only the eighth for the island and the second in autumn, other birds included a
Willow Warbler and a Pied Flycatcher while there were 3 Ruff in the fields and
my first Merlin of the autumn dashed over the garden.
I then walked the middle census route with the
highlight there being the first Barred Warbler of the autumn seen well in
flight at North Gravity while other things of note included 64+ Sand Martins in the Ancum area (a new island record count!), a Short-eared
Owl by Gravity which had a little tussle with the Hen Harrier which then
followed me round the whole census route, another Ruff, a smart flock of 26
Black-tailed Godwits on Ancum and 2 Willow Warblers.
Nightingale
Black-tailed Godwits
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