After a wild, wet and windy night it was oddly calm and
dry at dawn, so I took advantage of the weather window and had about two hours
at Holland where I caught a cracking GREENISH
WARBLER on the first round while other birds there included 2 Tree Pipits over (the first of the
autumn), 7+ Willow Warblers, a Garden Warbler and a Kestrel.
Several
hours of solid rain then moved in during which I walked round the Hooking
census route where birds included another Tree Pipit at The Mill, a single
Pintail on the loch, 19 Teal, a Grey Plover on The Links, 15 Black-tailed
Godwits, 9 Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Ruff and 20 Sand Martins The afternoon was drier but there was little
else in the rest of the Hooking census route but we all went up to Torness to
get great views of a smart juvenile Dotterel
running around (thought we’d missed out on that this year!) while a Short-eared
Owl floated around Nether Linnay.
Greenish Warbler
This Garden Warbler had a hard life in the nest!
Tree Pipit
Dotterel
Short-eared Owl
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