A good day with a lightish
SW wind and the occasional spell of drizzle which created and excellent day for
some visible migration; the main feature of the day was a fantastic, rolling
southerly movement of Redwings, piling through in flocks of 3-400 birds,
landing in fields and feeding for a few minutes while the wave behind them
moves over before flying low across the fields, I was out for five hours in the
afternoon in the middle census route and 1,030+ moved through. Other birds moving included constant flocks
of Geese coming in from the north with 700+ Greylags, 56 Pink-footed Geese and
11 Barnacle Geese, a total of 48 Whooper Swans in many flocks, a Merlin which
went through high up and 3 Rooks – the first of the autumn.
Other birds in the middle census area included 2 Hen
Harriers, 2 Kestrel, 2 Shelduck seen over The Links (an
unusual autumn record and the first since July), 2 Snow Buntings, 6 Reed
Buntings, 15 Song Thrush, 2 Yellowhammers by South Gravity, 6 Robins
and 3 Blackcap. The evening ringing
was very productive as we caught many, many Redwings at both Ancum and Holland
along with a Long-eared Owl at Holland and the Great Grey Shrike again at Ancum.
Whooper Swans
Golden Plover
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