Yet again, a great flat
calm start to the day with the nets having a bit more life in them than of late
as in amongst the 40 new birds were single Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler and
Pied Flycatcher along with 20 Willow Warblers; there were a few other birds
around as well including a Green Woodpecker, 11 Crossbills overhead, the first
Sparrowhawk of the autumn over the lighthouse and the adult male Marsh Harrier
and Peregrine cruising around.
The morning was also notable for good numbers of
waders passing through Vågsvollvåien with many flocks dropping in and heading
off again; conservative totals included 17 Ruff, 2 Knot, 8 Greenshank, 7 Common
Sandpipers, 7 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 4 Dunlin and the
highlights of a juvenile Little Stint
and a flyover Spotted Redshank.
With all these waders through the morning the coast
was disappointingly quiet in the rapidly increasing easterly wind at lunchtime
with only a small concentration of Tringa’s
in Verevågen of note while birds inland
included a Wryneck, a Tree Pipits a few scattered Red-backed Shrikes and a
Kestrel over the lighthouse.
Sedge Warbler
This Garden Warbler has obviously found and early crop of berries somewhere (or been eating Willow Warblers!)
Scruffy moulting juvenile Whinchat
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