After two days with nothing really to mention apart from the brisk, cold, NE wind, it was a gorgeous morning, very calm and partly cloudy, soon becoming warm and clear (although the cool easterly breeze was still making its presence felt); there were again few grounded migrants but those few that were present represented a significant improvement and comprised 2 Chaffinches, 2 Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, 2 Lesser Redpolls, 7 Wheatears and 3 Willow Warblers.
There were a few birds on the move in the fine conditions through the morning including 30 Bar-tailed Godwits and 48 Whimbrel north, mainly in one mixed flock at dawn, 24 Common Scoter north, a dark phase Arctic Skua which came out of the river, stole a fish from a Lesser Black-back and carried on north, a House Martin with 11 Swallows south and the first 2 Little Terns of the year north.
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