Monday, 2 November 2015

2nd November


A very pleasant day with light winds and the sun making a few appearances; managed 35 new birds in the nets including another Blackcap and 4 Coal Tits in amongst a little influx of Blue Tits and Great Tits.   I didn’t really see much on the sea in the short time that I looked but there was a bit of overhead passage especially when the sun came out properly mid-morning with 400+ Bramblings heading NW along with a few Yellowhammers, Redpolls, Goldfinches, Siskins and Skylarks; there were also 2 Waxwings, a/the Black Woodpecker which made a foray out to the lighthouse [again], 2 Peregrines, a late Curlew which went south, 2 Sparrowhawks and a couple of Grey Wagtails.

                There was little change out round the coast in the afternoon with 2 Wheatears on Skarvodden, 4 Grey Wagtails in Sevika, another Sparrowhawk which went high south and a Snow Bunting on Karveneset; inland it was even quieter with a Goshawk and a Great-spotted Woodpecker in Lebeltet Nord the only things of note.
 
House Sparrow

Black Woodpecker

Snow Bunting

Wheatear

Mink have been more obvious in the last week around the coast
 

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