A lovely day once the
early morning rain had moved through with light SW winds and plenty of
sunshine; totals around the Obs census route included a Black-throated Diver in Nouster, 4 Red-throated
Divers, 3 Long-tailed Ducks, the Green-winged Teal still on Gretchen, a
single Common Redpoll, 8 Chaffinches, 2 Brambling, 34 Twite, 18 Fieldfare, 20
Redwing, a Kestrel and 2 Snow Buntings.
Opened the nets at Ancum late afternoon and managed
to catch (presumably) the Nether Linnay Redpoll flock coming into roost which
consisted of 12 Common Redpolls (all had wing lengths of 75-80), a single Lesser Redpoll (wing length of 70) and the potential Coue’s Arctic Redpoll
but it was getting dark, starting to rain and I didn’t really have time to
grill it but I wasn’t really convinced so it went down as a Common.
Twite
Presumably a migrant continental Wren (on the right), slightly bigger, paler and gingerier
Common Redpolls
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