Still breezy from the SW but slightly lighter than
yesterday; I had an hours seawatch first thing which produced 460 Fulmars and
518 Auk sp. but the lighter winds encouraged a steady trickle of passerines
coming in off the sea including small numbers of Starlings, Meadow Pipits, Pied
Wagtails and Skylarks. I then walked
the Obs census route in the morning where the main feature was again the steady
southward movement of birds highlighted by the first 4 Rooks of the year along with
more Meadow Pipits, Skylarks and Pied Wagtails heading out along with small
flocks of Black-headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Greylag Geese and a couple of
Mallards out at sea.
Other
totals comprised a Heron, an extra Mute Swan pair on Gretchen, 3 Pink-footed
Geese, the drake Green-winged Teal still, a Hen Harrier, a
Merlin, 360 Golden Plover, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, the Sandwich Tern
again, a Song Thrush, 2 Chaffinches, 3 Linnets, 30 Twite, a Common Redpoll and
2 Snow Buntings.
Rook
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Bar-tailed Godwit
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