Heavy rain just before dawn promised some new arrivals and the nets were busy first thing with many Robins, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps and Goldcrests highlighted by a late Redstart; it soon tailed off though leaving the overhead passage to watch again dominated by thousands of Meadow Pipits moving south on a broad front with regular big flocks passing over the Obs mixed in with Chaffinches, Bramblings, Siskins and Skylarks plus single Mistle Thrush and Grey Wagtail.
I cycled over to the north shore of the reserve and out to the point there in the afternoon ever accompanied by flocks of Meadow Pipits heading the opposite direction along with a single Lapland Bunting but it was fairly quiet out there in amongst the gardens with a late Willow Warbler, a Wheatear and 2 Northern Long-tailed Tits the highlights although there was a heavy sprinkling of Goldcrests, Chiffchaffs and Robin in pretty much every garden or hedgerow.
My usual look over the estuary in the evening from the Obs produced a first-winter Little Gull and a smart looking first-winter Baltic Gull - well, a small, tapered looking, really defined looking young Lesser Black-back anyway; along with a 1cy female Peregrine (the third individual I’ve seen here) and 2 Greenshank of note.
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