A brilliant, flat calm
start to the day but it wasn’t long before the now easterly wind started to
pick up becoming pretty strong by mid-morning; managed to get the nets open for
the first few hours where there were the usual spread of juvenile birds plus a
House Martin (only the second I’ve caught here) and a couple of dispersing
Willow Warblers indicating that autumn is fast approaching!
There was a scattering of waders around the coast
from late morning as totals included 10 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers,
2 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank, a Sanderling, 8 Redshank, 3 Dunlin, 2 Whimbrel
and 3 Golden Plover. The only other
things of note were 2 juvenile Fieldfares in Lebeltet (probably locally bred),
a handful of Lesser Whitethroats including some juveniles, 2 Teal, a Wigeon, a
Great-northern Diver south and a Bonxie north.
A late Skylark still feeding chicks
Juvenile Whinchat
Wood Sandpiper
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