Thursday, 2 April 2015

2nd April


Wall to wall sunshine but it was marred by the still brisk and very cold NW wind; unable to head north yesterday an excellent 1,420 Common Gulls passed by (including an impressive burst of 400 in the first half an hour after dawn) with the two White-tailed Eagles (a 1st winter and a 3rd winter) flying south offshore pretty much the only other birds of note although there was a hint of some more waders with a group of 14 Ringed Plovers and 6 Bar-tailed Godwits heading north.
                There was a trickle of northward bound passerines in the sun including 30+ Rock Pipits, a Grey Wagtail and a few Siskins, Chaffinches and Skylarks.   Nothing much else to mention with my first Adder of the year seen basking by Net 1 the day’s highlight.
 
My first Adder of the spring
 

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