A perfect, flat calm day
with good cloud cover and plenty of birds around the lighthouse in the morning;
the nets were (relatively) busy with 45 new birds caught including 2
Sparrowhawks, a Yellow Wagtail, 5 Garden Warblers, 9 White Wagtails, a Reed
Warbler, 8 Tree Pipits and 2 Rock Pipits.
The day’s highlight though came mid-morning when a superb GYRFALCON flew SE along the coast at
close range – now that I’ve seen one properly the bird I saw two days ago was
almost certainly a Gyr as well!
There were good numbers of other birds around as well
especially 30+ Yellow Wagtails and 25+ Tree Pipits while 10+ Sparrowhawks and a
Merlin whizzed around. A bit
frustratingly I couldn’t get out and about until late afternoon but by then it
had clouded over completely and was a bit dark and gloomy but there were Tree
Pipits, Yellow Wagtails and Whinchats all over the place while a big Goshawk
and more Sparrowhawks were around and a few flocks of Crossbills were in the
woods.
Yellow Wagtail
Tree Pipit
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