A gorgeous morning, sunny and calm but the nets were very quiet, a couple of new Common Redpolls the only birds of note; there were a few birds around though in the fine conditions including 14 Whooper Swans, 2 Smew (both redheads which flew in from the north), a Jack Snipe flying around the reedbed with a good 30+ Snipe, obviously flushed from somewhere also flying around, a Greenshank (first one for a while), 2 Peregrines – the usual adult male and a 1cy male and 10+ Bearded Tits obvious in the reeds.
Didn’t go anywhere in the afternoon despite the weather but a nice evening watching from the house over the bay produced another impressive corvid spectacular, as numbers comprised 1,309 Hooded Crows, 1,200+ Jackdaws and an impressive 420+ Rooks (these included a big flock of c300 which came in high from the SE to drop onto the airfield); also of note was another increased total of 1,452 Lapwings with a single Ruff and 5 Golden Plovers, 4 Shoveler, the Greenshank again and at least 7 Curlews which left high to the south at dusk, all the time calling loudly – classic migrating behaviour.
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