An exciting start to the morning with Redwings, Song Thrushes and Blackbirds whizzing around in the calm, misty dawn – what east coast October mornings should be like! It petered out fairly-quickly but there was plenty to look at through the day with grounded migrants comprising 70 Song Thrushes, 25 Redwings, 35 Blackbirds, 35 Robins, 6 Chiffchaffs, 2 Wheatears, 2 Chaffinches, 3 Grey Wagtails, 25 Meadow Pipits, 2 Blackcaps and a late Willow Warbler.
A special mention goes to the first bird taken out of a net this morning – a Robin bearing a Lithuanian ring, only the fourth Lithuanian control in the UK.
The murky conditions didn’t allow any landbird vis mig to get going but the sea remained fairly clear so there was a good, varied southerly movement offshore which included 1,727 Brent Geese (really got going in the afternoon), 412 Wigeon, 188 Teal, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, 12 Pintail, 3 Pochard, 94 Common Scoter, 5 Shoveler, 3 Eiders (first of the autumn), 2 Shelduck, 2 Curlew, 5 Lapwings, 6 Knot, 8 Grey Plover, 46 Dunlin, 4 Sandwich Terns, a Guillemot, 55 Cormorants, 11 Red-throated Divers, 110 Black-headed Gulls and 15 Mediterranean Gulls.
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