Nice and sunny again but there was a real bitingly cold northerly wind which increased through the morning making things difficult, the nets therefore were pretty quiet with the first Redwing caught the highlight; not much else was seen through the morning with the Little Gull still in the bay along with 21 Shelduck, 1,080+ Wigeon, 217 Dunlin and 2 Greenshank, a Hen Harrier south, a kettle of 10 Buzzards overhead at lunchtime, an adult male Peregrine perched on the saltmarsh and 37+ Fieldfare.
A walk round the point early afternoon in the now strong NE wind was heavy on the quality if not the quantity, highlighted by an awesomely unexpected EAGLE OWL which I flushed from close quarters out of a smallish Rosa bush almost as close to the sea as you could get – a migrant, heading off somewhere or just a locally dispersing youngster, at the very least a seriously out-of-context bird, just what autumn birding is all about!
The only other birds were a smart 1cy female Arctic Peregrine type, also out on the point and an impressive pre-roost count of 482 Hooded Crows made from the Obs in the evening.
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