Heavy rain at dawn soon
passed through leaving a good autumnal feeling day – overcast with a fresh
easterly wind; the nets, while never busy yielded a nice range of birds
including an angry female Sparrowhawk, 3 Bramblings and single Tree Pipit,
Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Blackcap and Fieldfare. The sea was fairly quiet with the trickle of
waders still heading south and birds round the lighthouse included a Red-throated Pipit with a general
increase in White Wagtails and Meadow Pipits and a good flock of c50 Crossbills
over Lebeltet.
The coast was then packed full of birds with another
big wader influx but the highlight was a smart group of 3 juvenile Black Terns which dropped into Sevika
for a few minutes (a Norwegian tick!); waders were everywhere as totals
included 550+ Dunlin, 73+ Ringed Plover, 165+ Redshank (including an orange
flagged bird which I’m not sure where it’s from), 27+ Knot, a Temminck’s Stint, 6 Little Stints, a
Grey Plover, a Spotted Redshank, 22+ Turnstone, 6 Ruff, 4 Sanderling and
assorted Tringa’s. Other birds out
there included my first 2 Pintail of the autumn, 10 Wigeon, 70 Teal and the
female Goshawk zig-zagging through the rocks by Fuglejønna.
A little look around the sheltered side of the
plantations then produced 9 Spotted Flycatchers, 2 Pied Flycatchers, 3
Redstarts, a Cuckoo, 15+ Tree Pipits, 16 Whinchats and a few more Yellow
Wagtails.
Sparrowhawk
A rather surprised looking juvenile Fieldfare
Lesser Whitethroat
Record shots of the Black Terns in Sevika - quite a rare bird here!
Spotted Redshank
Temminck's Stint
Ringed Plover
Dunlin
Little Stint
Peregrine
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