A very similar day to yesterday but calmer, sunnier and warmer which meant that the nets were again fairly quiet with the usual spread of Goldcrests, Robins and Wrens, highlighted by another Norwegian ringed Chiffchaff.
The fine conditions meant that plenty of birds were heading south again but today they were extremely high up so I didn’t actually see very much just lots of specks up there in the blue; once I got my eye in though most notable were 950+ Woodpigeons zooming south in big flocks very high up along with a Sparrowhawk, a Grey Wagtail, a Hawfinch and lots of Greylag flocks arriving from the north.
Also of interest were several hundred Cranes which, instead of heading off to feed at first light as normal, hung around until mid-morning until leaving purposefully to the south – a very distinctive change in behaviour prior to the next leg of their migration.
Cycled south down the coast in the afternoon as far as Gamla Köpstads where migrants included 4 Wheatears, 2 Grey Wagtails, a White Wagtail, 20+ Twite, 2 Brent Geese and 3 Bar-tailed Godwits while numerous flocks of Barnacle Geese, Greylag Geese and Cranes moved south and there were some big kettles of spiralling Buzzards extremely high and in the distance totalling at least 88 birds.
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